[lldb-dev] Python support for Windows LLDB

[Greg Clayton]

On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Deepak Panickal <deepak at codeplay.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Python is currently disabled for LLDB Windows builds. We would like to enable LLDB Python support in Windows, as it would be especially helpful for running the LLDB test suite.
> 
> Currently, shell scripts are used for generating the swig wrapper classes and hence they would not work in Windows. They can be made to work using MSYS bash in Windows, but that would be adding another dependency to build LLDB.
> 
> We were thinking of a platform-independent solution, such as converting the currently used bash scripts to Python, so that they would work in Windows too along with other platforms and also avoid maintaining separate scripts.
> 
> Is this acceptable to proceed, or are there other approaches?

All python sounds fine to me. Anyone else have any objections?