[cfe-dev] clang doesn't know about it's installation prefix when searching header files

Sanghyeon Seo sanxiyn at gmail.com
Sat May 31 09:09:52 PDT 2008


2008/5/30 Holger Schurig <hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de>:
> So, should I amend llvm::sys::Path::GetMainExecutable so that it:
>
> * check if there is a "/" in the path?
> * if not, iterate over env['PATH'] to search for itself and
>  use the first match?

"GetMainExecutable" is a tricky function to implement in
cross-platform way. The standard Linux method is to resolve symlink
/proc/self/exe. On Windows, you call GetModuleFileName. See
http://autopackage.org/docs/binreloc/ for extensive discussion.

-- 
Seo Sanghyeon



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