[cfe-dev] Dynamic linked (.so) files for clang?

[Reid Kleckner]

I would personally like to create a big DSO for all of clang, but I don't
think anyone is working on this.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm working on packaging include-what-you-use (
> https://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use/ ) for Fedora/RHEL (
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091659 ) and the packaging
> guidelines strongly discourage linking against static libraries (
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries
> ). I'm putting in an exception request for the time being, but are there
> any plans in the long term to build the dynamic libraries for clang?
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
>
>> The clang executable has always been linked statically, and does not
>> actually depend on libclang.so. There isn't support yet for linking the
>> bulk of Clang's internal libraries into shared libraries. For now, they are
>> all static.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm the packager for llvm for the EPEL and it appears that all of the
>>> .so files aren't being generated for clang. For example, libclang.so is
>>> being generated (
>>> http://pkgs.org/centos-6/epel-x86_64/clang-3.4.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm.html
>>> ) but several of the symbols are only available in statically linked (.a)
>>> files (
>>> http://pkgs.org/centos-6/epel-x86_64/llvm-static-3.4.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm.html
>>> ).
>>>
>>> Is there something I can do to get all of the .so files to be generated?
>>>
>>> If it helps, the .spec file that I'm using can be found at
>>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/llvm.git/tree/llvm.spec?h=el6 and
>>> the configure command starts on line 320.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
>>>
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>>
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