[lldb-dev] [PATCH] Compiling lldb on Linux

[Greg Clayton]

I was able to build successfully with no changes to your patch Eli.

I did have to install the dev packages for python 2.6 and editline (version 1) main things you need to intall:

python2.6-dev
libghc6-editline-dev



On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Eli Friedman wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 3, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Eli Friedman wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Sean Callanan <scallanan at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> Eli,
>>>> the generated file you're looking for is LLDB_vers.c, a file generated by
>>>> Apple Generic Versioning, which is described in more detail
>>>> here: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/agvtool.8.html.
>>>> A properly-built LLDB_vers.c looks like this:
>>>> –
>>>>  const unsigned char LLDBVersionString[] __attribute__ ((used)) =
>>>> "@(#)PROGRAM:LLDB  PROJECT:lldb-24" "\n"; const double LLDBVersionNumber
>>>> __attribute__ ((used)) = (double)24.;
>>>> –
>>>> I've attached a simple Perl script that generates the above code given the
>>>> location of the .pbxproj as input.
>>> 
>>> Cool, thanks; I didn't realize that was missing.  I've managed to
>>> integrate it in (but I'm not attaching a patch yet; see below).
>>> 
>>> The other thing that is missing is generating the SWIG bindings; see
>>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/lldb-dev/2010-June/000045.html .
>>> I've managed to get it mostly working, but I'm running into an issue
>>> with circular dependencies: bindings -> source/API ->
>>> source/Interpreter -> bindings.  I'm not sure how to go about dealing
>>> with this... I'm tempted to just collapse lldb into a single .a file,
>>> but I don't know how to tell the LLVM Makefile system to do that.  Any
>>> ideas?
>> 
>> Is this a header file include issue? All files in "include/lldb/API" should only be pulling in stuff from "lldb/API/*.h" and from "lldb/lldb-*.h".
>> 
>> I will try and build this on my Ubuntu install and see if I can recognize anything. Can you send me a patch with your SWIG changes in? I can then check it out and let you know what I find.
> 
> Version with the additional fixes attached.  The issue is if I try to
> get rid of the hacks in source/Interpreter/ScriptInterpreterPython.cpp
> , there isn't any possible ordering of libraries that will make
> everything link successfully.
> 
> -Eli
> <lldb.txt>