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Setting up OS X for kernel debugging

Jan. 26, 2019 |  driver  debug  osx  kext  gdb  kernel  lldb  mac 
Here are the steps to prepare an OS X system for debugging kernel modules such as drivers. The instructions are deliberately brief to save the reader from tons of text. If you search the web, you will come across may resources that point to using GDB to de

How to view kernel logs in OS X

Jan. 19, 2019 |  log  driver  osx  iokit  mac 
How to view kernel logs is OS X You can use the command line tool `log` for this. This command accepts a predicate argument that can be used to , well build predicates, that when evaluates to true, the log message will be printed. It takes a command argume

Notes of the day

Oct. 11, 2018 |  osx  windows  cross-platform  mac 
A recent project requirement from a customer for a cross-platform solution prompted me to look into viable frameworks for this. Based on my knowledge of languages (C++, Python & Javascript), I narrowed the potential solutions to wxWidgets & Git Electron. S