[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D88906: [lldb/docs] Clarify python/swig version incompatibility

Tue Oct 6 09:41:34 PDT 2020

JDevlieghere added subscribers: stella.stamenova, compnerd.
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In D88906#2314615 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D88906#2314615>, @labath wrote:

> Jonas, the notion that 3.7 is incompatible comes from ae7389116 <https://reviews.llvm.org/rGae738911641660a63a102923c2beb070d6cebf39>. Do you happen to remember what was the issue you ran into?
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> I find it unlikely that 3.7 is incompatible but 3.8 is ok, and I think you probably ran into https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/1321 (which I recently ran into as well).

That's very possible. I don't remember the details, but when I used 3.7 on Windows all the tests failing. I asked someone (it might have been @compnerd or @stella.stamenova) who told me it was a known issue.

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+<https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/1321>` between Python version 3.7 and later
+and swig versions older than 4.0.0 which makes builds of lldb using debug
+versions of python unusable. This primarily affects windows, as debug builds of
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The rest of this page seems to be using `LLDB` rather than `lldb`. I have no preference as long as things are consistent.

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