A struct and a function sharing a C name leads to unsolvable name collisions.

[pette9]

I was generating bindings for <sys/stat.h> on Linux which contains a struct stat and a C function stat(). The bindings generation fails and there seems to be no way to distinguish the struct tag stat and the function in the rename file. I've succeeded in generating the bindings through dropping stat by adding stat one liner on the rename file but this generates broken Go since the Stat struct is not defined. I have used this command: sobind -o stat.go -pkg main -style go -rename rename-stat /usr/include/sys/stat.h. I get this output:

Error: C names collide; copy these into a -rename file and edit the Solod names apart:
struct stat  Stat
stat         Stat

using other styles do not seem to solve the problem.

[nalgeon]

Can you explain why using other styles doesn't fix the problem? What exactly happens if you use the default style (style=c)?

Also, have you tried making a rename file with the "stat" disambiguation for style=go, like the error message suggests?

[pette9]

I have tried to make the disambiguation but it seems like the rename file expects a specific pattern. For example it does not accept struct stat Stat. it expects either stat Stat or stat . When I apply the error suggestion: I get this error:
Error: rename-stat:1: want 'cname' or 'cname soname', got "struct stat Stat"

Using style=c has a similar behaviour.

sobind -o stat.go  -pkg main -style c /usr/include/sys/stat.h
Error: C names collide; copy these into a -rename file and edit the Solod names apart:
struct stat  stat
stat         stat

[nalgeon]

I see the problem now, thanks.

Make sure to install the latest version:

go install solod.dev/sobind@af3c77e0e4ce

Also, make sure that the rename file actually disambiguates the conflicting name:

struct stat  StructStat
stat         Stat

Then generate the binding:

sobind -o stat.go -style=go -rename=stat.rename /usr/include/sys/stat.h

[pette9]

It is fixed now, thanks.