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Forked and fixed quite a few more things: https://github.com/node-ffi-packager/node-libclang


Note: includes commits from previous pull-requests. Should be merged to master one by one, but wanted to showcase the stepwise progress and allow for feedback.


  • Generated using node-ffi-generate with elaborated type support.
  • Uses clang-6.0, which was released 2018-03-08.
  • Has not been tested with older clang/llvm versions.
  • Built on Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan using from node-ffi-generate with support for Elaborated types.
ln --symbolic --force "$(which "llvm-config-6.0")" "${HOME}/bin/llvm-config"
llvm-config --version
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(llvm-config --libdir)" node ./lib/generateffi.js

NOTE: move the generated newclang.js to replace lib/dynamic_clang.js.

See

> Represents a type that was referred to using an elaborated type keyword, e.g., `struct S`, or via a qualified name, e.g.,` N::M::type`, or both.

- Supporting Elaborated types allows for a greatly expanded library generation.
- Can be used by `ffi-generate` (with Elaborated type support) to regenerate the `lib/dynamic_clang.js`; see the `llvm-clang-6.0` branch.

See

- https://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/classclang_1_1ElaboratedType.html
- https://github.com/joelpurra/node-libclang/tree/llvm-clang-6.0
- https://github.com/joelpurra/node-ffi-generate/tree/support-elaborated-type
- Generated using `node-ffi-generate` with elaborated type support.
- Uses `clang-6.0`, which was released 2018-03-08.
- Has not been tested with older `clang`/`llvm` versions.
- Built on Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan using from `node-ffi-generate` with support for Elaborated types.

```shell
ln --symbolic --force "$(which "llvm-config-6.0")" "${HOME}/bin/llvm-config"
llvm-config --version
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(llvm-config --libdir)" node ./lib/generateffi.js
```

NOTE: move the generated `newclang.js` to replace `lib/dynamic_clang.js`.

See

- https://releases.llvm.org/6.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang
- https://github.com/tjfontaine/node-ffi-generate
- https://github.com/joelpurra/node-ffi-generate/tree/support-elaborated-type
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joelpurra commented Mar 7, 2020

Note that support for Elaborated types (#16) added 1200 or so new lines (100% increase) to lib/dynamic_clang.js. This includes enums and functions which were not exported before. Saw similar improvements for another library.

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Forked and fixed quite a few more things, might help someone: https://github.com/node-ffi-packager/node-libclang

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