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

[Manuel Klimek]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:25 AM, David Röthlisberger <david at rothlis.net> wrote:
> 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).

I have verified that it builds libclang.dll on Windows - I want the
opinion of a windows dev (cc'ed Michael) because it looks to me like
in the thread that you cite there were concerns raised about how
windows devs integrate libclang into their projects - so it was more
about the change in the CMakeLists.txt then about any possible side
effects.

Cheers,
/Manuel

>
> 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.
>
>
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