debugging a gui application on MAC

[jojohead]

The background:

I have a small GUI application to so some analysis and Image segmentation. For GUI I use wxwidgets. My environment is mac 10.5 and codeblocks for mac.
As I compile the application and run in mac, the executable starts but no mouse or keyboard controls goes on the interface.
With the help from wxwidgets community I have learn't that, we need to place the executable inside a special folder called project1.app/Contents/MacOS and then run the project1.app

Problem
Now the problem is if I try to change the project settings so the executable is directly written to such a directory hierarchy overriding the usual /debug/bin, when i try to debug it, it doesn't work. the application  in this case still doesn't take mouse or keyboard inputs to the interface. Only when I am launching the application by double clicking on project1.app it is running as an usual GUI application.

Any help on how to setup debug environment in these cases is highly appreciated.

[jojohead]

Sorry missed one more thing. If i try to write the executable directly to the directory hierarchy it fails citing that it cannot write. Eventhough I use the shell prompt to make all file access restriction to write on all sub directories

from build log:

-------------- Build: Debug in Project1 ---------------

Linking console executable: Project1.app/Contents/MacOS/
ld: can't open output file for writing: Project1.app/Contents/MacOS/
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
0 errors, 0 warnings
 

[afb]

It just seems to be missing the actual program name ?

Code

Linking console executable: Project1.app/Contents/MacOS/

Usually that would instead be something like:

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Linking console executable: Project1.app/Contents/MacOS/Project1