Type Updates

[cfis]

Move #canonical from to the base Type class since it applies to all Types. Then add new Clang API, get_named_type.

[cfis]

Hmm, not sure why this MR generated the CodeCompletion failures. I actually see those always when running tests locally but never on the test runner.

[cfis]

See same on Fedora too, clang 19.1.7

[ioquatix]

I can take a look if that's helpful.

[cfis]

That would be great. I've never seen code completion actually work locally but it has always worked on the CI/CD runner.

[cfis]

Hi @ioquatix wondering if you had a chance to look yet?

I've been working on a gem to automatically create C (via FFI) and C++ (via Rice) bindings for Ruby, and I think its far enough along for an initial release. See https://github.com/ruby-rice/ruby-bindgen.

I have successfully used it to create new OpenCv bindings for Ruby - see https://github.com/cfis/ruby-opencv/tree/master/ext/opencv.

Anyway, I'd like to get a few last MR's into ffi-clang and then it would be great if we could do an official release. Then i can add it as dependency to ruby-bindgen.

Let me know if I can help!

[ioquatix]

That sounds great, sorry I have been busy, will try to make some time later this week to sort it out.

[ioquatix]

I could not figure out what was wrong, but it looks like install-llvm-action is not working on Ubuntu 24.04 - the previous environment was 22.04 which was passing okay.

I've opted just to use the standard packages as they are finally "modern" enough that I think it's good enough for CI.

[ioquatix]

Released in v0.13.0.

[cfis]

Thanks!

[cfis]

Question - are you still making github releases too (see https://github.com/ioquatix/ffi-clang/releases)?

[ioquatix]

I find GitHub's release system far too manual for the volume of release I do. If you like, I'll create a releases.md document and we can add notes there about changes. It's my preference.