Firstly, I am a newbie on Mac programming. I have downloaded macam project and successfully compiled debug version to 32-bit code with Xcode 4.1. The output is a QuickTime component that I manually copy to Library/QuickTime folder. Now I want to debug the component but have no luck. I enable multiple breakpoints in the code and then use Product->Debug->Attach to Process to check the webcam output in Skype. Skype shows the (dummy) webcam running but my breakpoints do not work. I am sure my functions are called as they are the ones drawing color stripes as webcam output.
Apple documents on debugging a shared library are not very good. Is there something fundamental wrong with my approach or something simple I need to do first? Any guidance is much appreciated.
One of the easiest ways of debugging this, if you are going to use a third-party application like Skype, is going to be thru debug statements or a network socket.
What you can do, is create a UDP socket to send messages, as well as a client application to listen for them. This will provide you access to realtime information from your application…
You can also put in UDP listen statements to wait for (your other testing app) to send parameters.
I know this isn’t the traditional way of debugging, and it can cause its own problems, but if done properly, can provide tons of useful debugging when all other tools fall short.