undefined symbol: sipExportedExceptions_limacore

[Phil Thompson]

On 28/11/2025 16:07, Laurent Claustre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> porting our C++ project python binding  from sip 4.19 to 6.14 we got
> the following error when importing the project module:
> 
> /undefined symbol: sipExportedExceptions_limacore/
> 
> Looking into the generated sipAPI project file (sipAPIlimacore.h)
> sipExportedExceptions_limacore is declared as "external":
> 
> //* The exceptions defined in this module. */
> extern PyObject *sipExportedExceptions_limacore[];/
> 
> But none of the .h/.cpp generated file contains its declaration. We
> have a Exceptions.sip file which looks like:
> 
> /enum Layer {
>     Common, Control, Hardware, CameraPlugin,
> };
> 
> enum ErrorType {
>     InvalidValue, NotSupported, Error,
> };
> 
> 
> %Exception Exception(SIP_Exception)
> {
> %TypeHeaderCode
> #include "lima/Exceptions.h"
> using namespace lima;
> %End
> %RaiseCode
>     const std::string& tmpString = sipExceptionRef.getErrMsg();
>     const char *detail = tmpString.c_str();
>     PyErr_SetString(sipException_Exception, detail);
> %End
> };
> /
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Laurent

Compared to the 4.19 code is the declaration new or is the 
implementation missing?

Phil