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Haskell FFI to libclang
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Static builds #66

Closed deech closed 7 years ago

deech commented 7 years ago

I've added support for static linking in the form of a flag staticbuild. Like the previous version setting this flag will concatenate all the LLVM, Clang and Haskell bindings libraries into one big archive (63MB on my machine). However unlike the previous version LLVM and Clang are not cloned and built, instead it is assumed that the user has static versions of those libraries at the location specified by llvm-config --libdir.

Help building and testing this on various versions of OSX and Linux is appreciated.

/cc @abarbu

deech commented 7 years ago

Bump.

chetant commented 7 years ago

Hey, sorry this has taken so long. Will work on this over the weekend.

abarbu commented 7 years ago

Forcing every end user to have a specific llvm version, getting it recognized, and making sure it's built with the right flags is an extreme pain point.

Because of this, while this library is awesome, it's just not practical to depend on it at all. No widely used library can afford to depend on something that's basically going to break on every single user's machine without significant manual intervention. (Imagine how many people would use lens if every user no matter how naive had to go through this?)

Would it be possible to go back to building llvm at compile time? High compile times are annoying but at least they make the library practical. How about instead automatically downloading and using official llvm binaries for platforms on which these already exist?

Andrei

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deech commented 7 years ago

Sorry to keep pestering but please let me know if there is an issue with the PR. Thanks!