[llvm-dev] LLVM nightly installer for Windows is missing lldb's python35.dll
Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Feb 21 13:59:57 PST 2017
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Ryan Gonzalez via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> After having a large feud with gdb, I decided to switch over to lldb under
> Windows like I already had under Linux. However, when I installed it using
> the 64-bit LLVM nightly installer, it kept crashing upon startup. Popping it
> in WinDbg (oh the irony) showed that it was trying to load Python35.dll, but
> it was loading the 32-bit version I had installed separately.
>
> The fix was simple: download the Python 3.5 binary ZIP and copy python35.dll
> to the LLVM bin directory.
>
> TL;DR: The nightly installer is missing python35.dll, meaning that lldb will
> try to use the first one it comes across, regardless of whether or not it's
> the right architecture.
I don't think we want to include the python dll in the installer(?).
Could lldb be more graceful in how it loads the python dll?
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