[cfe-dev] cindex.py & cmake builds of clang

[David Röthlisberger]

On 9 May 2012, at 08:39, Anders Waldenborg wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:30:18PM +0200, Arnaud de Grandmaison wrote:
>> When building clang using cmake, libclang is actually named
>> 'liblibclang' to avoid a file collision on Windows.
> 
> I not sure I fully understand all the details of this issue, but I
> think a way to solve the clang.dll collission issue would be to simply
> rename libclang.


We can always consider this at a later date but right now we are not going to rename libclang because of a build system bug that we already know how to fix.

Here is a summary of my understanding of the matter:

1. libclang python bindings don't work on Unixes if libclang was build with cmake.
2. Arnaud submitted a patch to the cmake build system (his second patch in this thread, sent on 2012-05-08). Arnaud tested it on Linux.
3. Manuel tested it on Windows and confirmed that it worked, but he is not a heavy Windows user.
4. WE ARE WAITING FOR WINDOWS USERS TO TEST THE PATCH -- PLEASE HELP. We need you to confirm that with this patch it still builds libclang.dll on Windows (instead of clang.dll, which causes a conflict with clang.exe).

This is an issue that has caused repeated confusion over the last year.† An entire year ago people were claiming to have a solution but no concrete patch was ever submitted. Now Arnaud has submitted a patch and it would be nice to give this the final push so we can get it committed once and for all.

† See the mailing list threads linked to in http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=12620#c0

Thanks,
Dave.