[cfe-dev] Loading plugins into libclang

[Benjamin Kramer via cfe-dev]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 01, 2016 02:16:52 PM Benjamin Kramer via cfe-dev wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> in my quest to get clang-tidy integrated into your favorite editor
>> (via ycm) I'm hitting one major roadblock. I'm piggybacking on the
>> existing plugin mechanism which gives me both a way to add extra
>> Actions to the parse process and hand flags to the plugin for
>> configuration. This works well for (most of) clang-tidy as it really
>> just emits diagnostics and FixIts.
>
> Heya,
>
> did you see my patch here?
>   http://reviews.llvm.org/D15729
>
> This makes it possible to load Clang plugins in libclang by simply passing
> additional compiler arguments to libclang's clang_parseTranslation function.
>
>> However, loading a plugin into libclang isn't easily possible because
>> there it doesn't export all the clang symbols.
>
> I'm not sure I understand this issue. Could you elaborate?
>
> A Clang plugin is supposed to be linked against all necessary Clang/LLVM
> libraries already, isn't it? So it should be possible to dlopen the plugin
> just fine.

Oh I see. I was holding CMake wrong, actually linking all of Clang and
Clang-tidy into the same .so works. This is a bit scary to me because
there are now two clang copies around but it seems to work fine.
Thanks!

- Ben

>> Putting all the clang
>> symbols into the plugin doesn't work either because you'll get
>> duplicate command line flag registration and everything. My current
>> hack is to statically link clang-tidy into libclang. This works but
>> creates an ugly (optional) dependency from libclang into
>> clang-tools-extra.
>>
>> Is there any other way to extend libclang without actually modifying
>> libclang itself?
>>
>> - Ben
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