announcing wldbg

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:27:46 +0200
Marek Chalupa <mchqwerty at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> It's been some time since I started developing a tool called wldbg in my 
> free time. I'm using it while debugging applications based on wayland 
> and I think it is in enough good shape to bring it out (although there 
> is still a lot of missing features I'd like to add/fix)
> 
> It can work in few modes. One mode takes a list of modules (I call them
> passes, like LLVM passes) and run functions from these modules on every
> message that goes through wayland socket (one function for incoming 
> messages, one for outcoming). Each module can modify, dump,
> take statistics, delay the message - whatever it wants (see 
> passes/example.c in source tree)
> 
> Second mode is interactive gdb-like interface. You can set breakpoints,
> hide or showonly some particular messages, display what objects clients
> has, etc. This mode has few functions, but helped me a lot in some 
> cases. The usage is very easy:
> 
> wldbg -i wayland-client
> 
> It will stop on the first message, waiting for commands.
> 
> Last mode is server mode. wldbg overtakes the bound socket and accepts
> all new connections. It was originally developed for debugging Xwayland,
> but since all compositors pass WAYLAND_SOCKET to Xwayland - therefore 
> Xwayland don't bind to named socket, I don't use it much now. Maybe
> somebody of you will :)
> 
> The source code is here:
> 
> https://github.com/mchalupa/wldbg
> 
> Hopefully, some of you will find this tool helpful :)

Hi Marek,

that sounds cool. Want to send a patch to add a link to
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/extras.html ?

Hopefully someone would push that before I get back from
holidays. :-)


Thanks,
pq