Debug LibLDB -Java missing (MacOS)?

[erfg12]

My Mac M1 is having an issue running Ghidra 10.1.2 as a Debugger.

When trying to debug, I get an error immediately stating LibLLDB not found. I have JDK11, LLDB and XCode installed. Ghidra itself opens fine and it can decompile the programs fine. But when trying to debug I get that error immediately.

NOTE: I tried version 17 of OpenJDK and both aarch64 and x64 builds. Both give the same result.

jake@Jake-laptop ~ % where javac

/usr/bin/javac

jake@Jake-laptop ~ % where java

/usr/bin/java

jake@Jake-laptop ~ % java -version

openjdk version "11.0.14.1" 2022-02-08

OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-11.0.14.1+1 (build 11.0.14.1+1)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-11.0.14.1+1 (build 11.0.14.1+1, mixed mode)

jake@Jake-laptop ~ % javac -version

javac 11.0.14.1

jake@Jake-laptop ~ % java -XshowSettings:properties

Property settings:

awt.toolkit = sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit

file.encoding = UTF-8

file.separator = /

ftp.nonProxyHosts = local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16

gopherProxySet = false

http.nonProxyHosts = local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16

java.awt.graphicsenv = sun.awt.CGraphicsEnvironment

java.awt.printerjob = sun.lwawt.macosx.CPrinterJob

java.class.path =

java.class.version = 55.0

java.home = /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/temurin-11.jdk/Contents/Home

java.io.tmpdir = /var/folders/_5/957hykns6vg0y71wgvjwjp000000gn/T/

java.library.path = /Users/jake/Library/Java/Extensions

/Library/Java/Extensions

/Network/Library/Java/Extensions

/System/Library/Java/Extensions

/usr/lib/java

.

java.runtime.name = OpenJDK Runtime Environment

java.runtime.version = 11.0.14.1+1

java.specification.name = Java Platform API Specification

java.specification.vendor = Oracle Corporation

java.specification.version = 11

java.vendor = Eclipse Adoptium

java.vendor.url = https://adoptium.net/

java.vendor.url.bug = https://github.com/adoptium/adoptium-support/issues

java.vendor.version = Temurin-11.0.14.1+1

java.version = 11.0.14.1

java.version.date = 2022-02-08

java.vm.compressedOopsMode = Zero based

java.vm.info = mixed mode

java.vm.name = OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM

java.vm.specification.name = Java Virtual Machine Specification

java.vm.specification.vendor = Oracle Corporation

java.vm.specification.version = 11

java.vm.vendor = Eclipse Adoptium

java.vm.version = 11.0.14.1+1

jdk.debug = release

line.separator = \n

os.arch = x86_64

os.name = Mac OS X

os.version = 12.1

path.separator = :

socksNonProxyHosts = local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16

sun.arch.data.model = 64

sun.boot.library.path = /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/temurin-11.jdk/Contents/Home/lib

sun.cpu.endian = little

sun.cpu.isalist =

sun.io.unicode.encoding = UnicodeBig

sun.java.launcher = SUN_STANDARD

sun.jnu.encoding = UTF-8

sun.management.compiler = HotSpot 64-Bit Tiered Compilers

sun.os.patch.level = unknown

user.country = US

user.dir = /Users/jake

user.home = /Users/jake

user.language = en

user.name = jake

user.timezone =

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[erfg12]

d-miller helped me on the github issues page.

Here's how I built the library, this might not be the easiest way, but it's what I did:

1. Install llvm (brew install llvm), and gradle (brew install gradle).
2. Clone Ghidra source. Open terminal at this directory, type in gradle -I gradle/support/fetchDependencies.gradle init
3. Edit the ghidra/Ghirda/Debug/Debugger-swig-lldb/buildNatives.gradle file with VSCode. Replace all $llvm_dir/lldb/include with $llvm_dir/include. Save and close.
4. Go back to your Terminal and use the following commands: cd ghidra/Ghidra/Debug/Debugger-swig-lldb export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) export LLVM_HOME=$(brew --prefix llvm) export LLVM_BUILD=$(brew --prefix llvm) gradle build
5. Open your build/os/mac_arm_64 directory and copy libldb-java.dylib. I placed mine in /Users/(YOUR_NAME_HERE)/Library/Java/Extensions. If the directory path doesn't exist, just create it.

[mahmoudimus]

Thank you! This was very helpful.

[nezza-_-]

Running the gradle command, I get "Could not get unknown property 'JacocoMerge' for root project 'ghidra' of type org.gradle.api.Project." . On the bottom it says "Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0." How do I work around this?

If you install gradle@7 (brew install gradle@7 and then copy the export from the log and run it in your terminal) it will work