[LLVMdev] A first!

[Jeff Cohen]

There's a problem with the license for ltdl.c when building with VC++.  
It is under the LGPL, with a special exception:

As a special exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License,
if you distribute this file as part of a program or library that
is built using GNU libtool, you may include it under the same
distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.

The problem is, when built with Visual Studio, libtool is not used.  
Therefore the LGPL exception does not apply, thereby infecting all of 
LLVM with the LGPL.

Jeff Cohen wrote:

> The interpreter still resolves printf using a hack.  It does try to 
> use DynamicLibrary to find it, but fails.  DynamicLibrary on Windows 
> only searches the main program executable for symbols, lli.exe in this 
> case.  As the C/C++ runtime is in a DLL, it won't find printf in 
> lli.exe.  It ought to then search the runtime DLL, the name of which 
> depends on how the binaries are built, but it doesn't.  It should 
> probably enumerate and search all DLLs present in the process, 
> including the system DLLs so that a program can use the Win32 API, but 
> there's no code to do that in ltdl.c.
>
> This code needs to be added, but I'm not sure where.  
> win32/DynamicLibrary.cpp is not the place, as it is never compiled, 
> just as none of */DynamicLibrary.cpp are compiled.  I still don't know 
> why these files exist.  But ltdl.c doesn't feel right either, as it's 
> GNU software.  The main DynamicLibrary.cpp is supposed to be platform 
> independent, so that doesn't seem appropriate either, nonetheless 
> seems to be the best bet.
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