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85 lines
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# Delve
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### What is Delve?
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Delve is a (Beta) Go debugger, written in Go.
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This project is currently in beta. Most of the functionality is there, but there are various improvements to be made.
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### Building
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Delve requires Go 1.4 to build.
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```
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go get github.com/derekparker/delve/cmd/dlv
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```
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You will need readline installed on your system. With apt simply: `sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev` .
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### Features
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* Attach to an already running process
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* Launch a process and begin debug session
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* Set breakpoints, single step, step over functions, print variable contents, print thread and goroutine information
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### Usage
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The debugger can be launched in three ways:
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* Compile, run, and attach in one step:
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```
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$ dlv -run
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```
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* Provide the name of the program you want to debug, and the debugger will launch it for you.
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```
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$ dlv path/to/program
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```
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* Provide the pid of a currently running process, and the debugger will attach and begin the session.
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```
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$ sudo dlv -pid 44839
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```
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### Breakpoints
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Delve can insert breakpoints via the `breakpoint` command once inside a debug session, however for ease of debugging, you can also call `runtime.Breakpoint()` and Delve will handle the breakpoint and stop the program at the next source line.
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### Commands
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Once inside a debugging session, the following commands may be used:
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* `break` - Set break point at the entry point of a function, or at a specific file/line. Example: `break foo.go:13`.
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* `continue` - Run until breakpoint or program termination.
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* `step` - Single step through program.
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* `next` - Step over to next source line.
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* `threads` - Print status of all traced threads.
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* `goroutines` - Print status of all goroutines.
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* `print $var` - Evaluate a variable.
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* `info $type [regex]` - Outputs information about the symbol table. An optional regex filters the list. Example `info functions unicode`. Valid types are:
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* `sources` - Prings the path of all source files
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* `functions` - Prings the name of all defined functions
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* `exit` - Exit the debugger.
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### Upcoming features
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* In-scope variable setting
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* Support for OS X
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* Editor integration
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### License
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MIT
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