Requirements
This page lists the requirements for running bindgen and how to get them.
Clang
bindgen leverages libclang to preprocess, parse, and type check C and C++
header files.
It is required to use Clang 5.0 or greater.
Installing Clang
Windows
If you use winget:
winget install LLVM.LLVM
Alternatively, you can download and install the official pre-built binary from LLVM download page.
You will also need to set LIBCLANG_PATH as an environment
variable pointing
to the bin directory of your LLVM install. For example, if you installed LLVM
to D:\programs\LLVM, then you'd set the value to be D:\programs\LLVM\bin.
Alternatively, for Mingw64, you can install clang via
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-clang
macOS
If you use Homebrew:
$ brew install llvm
If you use MacPorts:
$ port install clang
Debian-based Linuxes
# apt install llvm-dev libclang-dev clang
Ubuntu 18.04 provides the necessary packages directly.
Arch
# pacman -S clang
Fedora
# dnf install clang-devel
OpenBSD
# pkg_add llvm
Add export LIBCLANG_PATH=/usr/local/lib to your profile.
From source
If your package manager doesn't yet offer Clang 5.0, you'll need to build from source. For that, follow the instructions here.
Those instructions list optional steps. For bindgen:
- Checkout and build clang
- Checkout and build the extra-clang-tools
- You do not need to checkout or build compiler-rt
- You do not need to checkout or build libcxx