[Rock-dev] clang vs. typelib

[Sylvain Joyeux]

The out-of-tree build is there, by the way

  https://github.com/doudou/clang-typelib/tree/out_of_tree

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Sylvain Joyeux <bir.sylvain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> rhetorical standard question lwhich os? which llvm-branch?
>> did u "make all" in the llvm-build dir, or just "make extractor"?
> Mmmmm... One important "detail". It is an out-of-build tree (I got it
> to work), so prebuilt clang 3.4 from Ubuntu.
>
>>> One thing you may have missed: types need to be resolved recursively.
>>> That is, you need to resolve the fields types, and the fields types of
>>> the fields types and so on and so forth.
>> we talked about this, and said that these types are pulled later from
>> the typelib-registry? no need to resolve them recursively at the level
>> of the clang-based-tool? (which still needs a proper name...)
> Eeeeh. Misunderstanding.
> Nope, they cannot be pulled later from the typelib registry as that
> would require the user to basically tell orogen all the files that
> should be pulled (replicating the set of recursive includes). If you
> think about it, really not fun when you start hitting Eigen or boost.
>
> Sylvain