[lldb-dev] Default script language

[Ed Maste via lldb-dev]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 19:13, Ted Woodward <tedwood at quicinc.com> wrote:
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> I agree with Jim - it should be a cmake setting, defaulting to Python. If the person building lldb wants to change the default scripting language from Python to Lua, it should be easy.

Ok, agreed. My initial concern was that python remained the default
even if not compiled in, but I can carry a tiny patch in the FreeBSD
base system to address that for now. I agree with Jim that there's no
point in doing the work twice.

> Since we now support 2 scripting languages, we should have an easy way for the user to see which are supported, and which is the default if there are more than 1 supported. Maybe in lldb --version?

We should indeed have a way to see which languages are available and
which is default. We have a few other build-time options, should we
include a summary of all of them in --version I wonder?

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 02:44, Pavel Labath <pavel at labath.sk> wrote:
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> That said, I don't think we can implement this using #ifdefs.
> lldb-enumerations.h is a part of our public api, Config.h isn't (it
> theoretically could be, but I don't think we want that).

As it turns out changing lldb-enumerations.h wasn't sufficient anyway,
the default is also specified in CoreProperties.td. I'll start looking
into both of these changes (dealing with eScriptLanguageDefault, and
adding cmake configuration).