From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: please add bear package
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:42:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b14c173b-4660-04ea-52eb-c2168ed2f861@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36afa6ff-5f5c-610a-0941-96185646c16d@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
On 9/16/2020 10:35 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-09-15 23:34, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 16.09.2020 um 05:27 schrieb anlex N via Cygwin:
>>> Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for clang tooling.
>> You cannot expect anyone to go on bear hunt and make a package for you.
>> On the cygwin.com page you find information about how to propose and build
>> packages.
>
> "Bear currently only works on Unix-based systems (FreeBSD, GNU/Linux and macOS),
> since it’s heavily relying on the LD_PRELOAD mechanism on *BSD/Linux and its
> macOS counterpart to intercept the system calls."
Some old posts suggest that LD_PRELOAD works for overloading functions that
Cygwin provides. I can't swear to it myself :-) ...
Regards - Eliot Moss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-16 3:27 anlex N
2020-09-16 5:34 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-09-16 14:35 ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-16 14:42 ` Eliot Moss [this message]
2020-09-16 15:50 ` Brian Inglis
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