Update to clang 10?

[StephenHodgson]

Any plans to update this library to use clang 10?

[xoofx]

What are you looking for specifically in clang 10?

[StephenHodgson]

See xoofx/CppAst.CodeGen#3

[xoofx]

But why do you think that clang 10 is fixing this?
They barely make changes to the libclang API and implementation, so usually bugs like this can stay for a while...

[xoofx]

the issue is usually with libclang, not with clang. Libclang makes a C wrapper of their internal C++ API, but their wrapper is incomplete, so things perfectly exposed in C++ can be wrongly exposed (or not exposed at all) through libclang, that's a known issue unfortunately (for example: https://foonathan.net/2017/04/cppast/)

[StephenHodgson]

Idk I thought it would help. I get correct tokens from other forms of this library

[xoofx]

Idk I thought it would help. I get correct tokens from other forms of this library

Which one? Do you have a small repro with these other libraries that I could check?

[StephenHodgson]

Not a small repo, no. I was using the main branch of https://github.com/microsoft/ClangSharp

I also tried https://github.com/mono/CppSharp

All three don't really work for me but in lots of different ways lol.

I'm beginning to think it's impossible to generate good bindings for third party libraries.

[xoofx]

I will probably wait that https://github.com/microsoft/ClangSharp release NuGet packages.

I had to release my own https://github.com/xoofx/libclang but I would really prefer that there is a single source to manage that.

[StephenHodgson]

Their beta came out recently.

I was trying to get their p/invoke gen setup but was unsuccessful. Tbh, I really like how you've setup the code gen in https://github.com/xoofx/CppAst.CodeGen better. Just makes more sense.

[xoofx]

So latest master is using ClangSharp 10.0 beta package, though, I'm not able to get tests running on the CI for some reasons...

[xoofx]

Tracking the issue with RID with ClangSharp here

[xoofx]

So CppAst 0.5.0-alpha-001 and CppAst.CodeGen are now both using clang 10