How to debug a system extension from scratch with LLDB

Is it possible to debug a system extension from scratch with LLDB?

I can think of various avenues that you might explore here but the easiest approach is to add a call to

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Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware

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Thanks, eskimo:P

How about if I don't have the source code?

Well, this is exactly what a bunch of the SIP and Hardened Runtime provisions were explicitly made to prevent from happening.

There are lots of instructions out there on the internet about attaching debuggers to things you aren't activly developing, but I'll leave those as an exercise for the reader.

How about if I don't have the source code?

Why? Because it’s not your product? If so, my advice is that you engage with the product’s vendor. Helping folks debug other folks’s product is outside of my remit.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware

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Hi eskimo,

My library was integrated with a system extension developed by another team, I just want to debug it quickly without code change due to I already have dSYM and source code.