Debuggin Python API C extension (iocompython)¶

Install dependencies¶

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep python3.8
sudo apt-get install python3-dev

Just to make it doubly sure that we got all, run

sudo apt-get update \
   && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git libexpat1-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
  libncurses5-dev libbz2-dev liblzma-dev \
  libsqlite3-dev libffi-dev tcl-dev linux-headers-generic libgdbm-dev \
  libreadline-dev tk tk-dev

Debug Python with QT creator¶

QT creator needs to be started with script which sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH do that debugging works.

Select run in terminal if opening from file explorer.
Remember to build DEBUG version of iocompython.
Here debugging with Python code /coderoot/iocom/extensions/iocompython/examples/ispy/ispy.py

/coderoot/iocom/extensions/iocompython/scripts/start-qtcreator-for-python-debug.sh

Select [Debug][Start Debugging][Start and Debug External Application]. Set Python program to debug as command line argument.

../../_images/start-debugging-python.png — debug python as external application.¶