[cfe-dev] Why no Debian package for libc++?

[Arji Cot]

The errors are probably caused by the fact that you need ( and you are not
providing it to the linker ) libcxxabi http://libcxxabi.llvm.org/ .

In general terms I personally consider both libcxx and libcxxabi under
Linux pretty useless right now.

The main issues are:
 - libcxx and libcxxabi are simply not ready yet for Linux, they are just
incomplete and without a real support from the llvm project
 - in the end libcxx and libcxxabi will use libsupc++ and stdlibc++ anyway,
so there is no point in using them, you are just introducing a new
dependence for nothing

I personally have little to no faith in libcxx taking over libstdc++ under
Linux in the immediate future.


2013/7/26 Sian Mountbatten <poenikatu at fastmail.co.uk>

>  Dear List
>
> I have downloaded the latest Debian packages for Clang/LLVM, for which I
> am very
> grateful. It has certainly provided the necessary C++11 tools I need for my
> learning of C++11.
>
> However, I notice that libc++ is missing from those Debian packages. Is it
> possible
> to create a Debian package for the LLVM version of libc++?
>
> I should like to bring to your attention a small matter concerned with
> libc++.
> I downloaded the source a few days ago and executed the 'buildit' script
> in the
> libcxx/lib directory. This successfully produced libc++.so.1.0 which I put
> into
> /usr/local/lib (plus links).
>
> Yesterday, I did the same thing again because I wanted the latest version.
> The
> buildit script produced a library which I again moved to /usr/local/lib.
> When I
> used clang++ to use that library, I received a whole lot of error messages
> which
> I have uploaded to my web-site
> http://www.poenikatu.co.uk/c++/libc++-err.log.
> Could somebody look at those errors to see what has happened to libc++?
>
> My system is Debian wheezy 7.1 amd64 with kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 SMP. My
> locale is
> eo.UTF-8.
>
> Sincerely
>
> --
> Sian Mountbatten
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