Sigh, I have a project that I’d really wanted to quickly bring to the Mac, but alas - not working.
I’m on 2016r2.1 on Windows 10 doing the development. I have a Mac Mini running 10.11.6 and the Remote Debugger Desktop 2.0.4 application.
I open any sample project on the Windows machine and run the project remote on the Mac. The application launches and debugging works fine. However, every time the application quits on the Mac my Xojo IDE on the Windows machine crashes. This happens even if I simply open the app on Mac and closes it (i.e. not entering the debugger).
Is there any work-around?
Windows 10 AU 64-bit running 2016r2.1. Target is a Mac 10.11.6 running Remote Debugger Desktop 2.0.4.
It is often much better to develop directly on the target machine anyway. That is the only way to get the feel of it. Especially given the differences between Mac and Windows.
Yeah, but with a mid-2012 Mac Mini with a spinning HDD and 8GB of RAM, running Xojo IDE on Mac OS is far, far, far away from pleasant… Simply launch the project takes a minute for the app to launch… Oh well…
Does the same thing happen if you stop the app from the IDE with the stop button or only when the app is quit on the target mac?
@Mattias Sandström - I’ve got exactly the same hardware configuration and also developing on Windows and remote debug for the mac version of the project. I use Parallels 11 and Xojoj 2015r4.1 (Think if you primary develop on and for Windows you can’t get beyond this release at the moment.)
I don’t see the problem you describe, so it would be good if you could test with 2015r4.1 in order to check if a new issue could be introduced with last releases.
The only annoying reason to avoid remote debugging is the fact that compiling and transmitting takes quite long each time, so for serious issues I prefer using the mac IDE.
I need to be on 2016r1.1 or later to get the fix for the Open/Save dialogues affecting domain users (<https://xojo.com/issue/41625>).
I can confirm that 2015r4.1 with Remote Debugger Desktop 2.0.1 works just fine debugging Windows 10 → Mac OS.
2016r2.1 to Remote Debugger Desktop 2.0.1 launches that application on the Mac but Xojo IDE terminates when the app closes.
Found <https://xojo.com/issue/43460> but that case has tons of different versions and configurations in it.
All of the 2016 versions run into this pushing a web app to a Linux VM as well.
There is no ‘in-place’ web testing without remote debugging.
This works really well for me when debugging a web app in context with the database.