Bear VS compiledb

Compare Bear vs compiledb and see what are their differences.

Bear

Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for clang tooling. (by rizsotto)

compiledb

Tool for generating Clang's JSON Compilation Database files for make-based build systems. (by nickdiego)
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Bear compiledb
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Bear

Posts with mentions or reviews of Bear. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-29.
  • Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for Clang tooling
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2024
  • Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2024
    There are generators for the compilation databases that work with Makefiles and other build systems, like Bear: https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear
  • emacs lsp-mode with MPLAB X project
    1 project | /r/emacs | 30 Nov 2023
    Have you tried Bear? I used it for several projects and overall it works very well.
  • Eglot + clangd not working for NetHack code base
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Jun 2023
    An update: I am now able to make everything work by generating `compile_commands.json` using compiledb. I'm aware that there is another tool Bear but for some reason it generates an empty `compile_commands.json` file for me.
  • I have an existing legacy build system. How do I leverage this with CLion to index my project?
    1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 1 Jun 2023
    Try https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear
  • New User C Setup Help?
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 24 May 2023
    Regarding the libraries, you might need to add it to clangd’s configuration. A convenient way is to have a compile_commands.json in your project (this is generated by some build tools like CMake, but if you don’t use them, have a look at bear).
  • vscode alternative for C++ on M1 mac?
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 15 May 2023
    Note that you need to have a compile_commands.json file. That file can easily be generated by CMake, Meson, etc. For other build systems checkout Bear https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear
  • I hope that cscope can make a comeback in the versions after 0.9
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Apr 2023
    make a 'gcc' command/executable that do nothing and make it first in your PATH and then run bear with make: https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear/issues/219 It is unfortunate that bear doesn't catch the output of the make command with '--dry-run' as it still prints the compile commands, it seems not that hard to support this and I think many ppl would benefit..
  • CLion 2023.1 released
    1 project | /r/cpp | 29 Mar 2023
    You could try to start with Bear: https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear In worst cases, I had to use strace to catch every gcc/g++ invocation and restructure the compile_commands.json out of the strace logs.
  • Is CMake necessary to set up a C++ "IDE" in neovim?
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 17 Mar 2023
    But it sounds like maybe you’re assuming for the purposes of using something like clangd (highly recommended for coding in cpp projects in general, you want to be using this in vscode or whatever else anyway, codelion notwithstanding I suppose) with neovim on a c++ project that you have to use cmake to produce a compilation database to use with neovim plugins (e.g. clangd via nvim-lsp et. al.). In this case, be aware that the https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear tool is a handy way to just tack it on to whatever command you’re using to run a c++ code build step, and it will give you a compile_commands.json, corresponding to the compiler commands it invoked, on a silver platter.

compiledb

Posts with mentions or reviews of compiledb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Bear and compiledb you can also consider the following projects:

vscode-cpptools - Official repository for the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code.

conan - Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

NvChad - Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience.

Cython - The most widely used Python to C compiler

scan-build - Clang's scan-build re-implementation in python

gcovr - Generate code coverage reports with gcc/gcov

clangd - clangd language server

coc-clangd - clangd extension for coc.nvim

project-cmake - Emacs extension to the project package for supporting CMake as build system.

ccls - C/C++/ObjC language server supporting cross references, hierarchies, completion and semantic highlighting

pmbuild - A simple, configurable and extendible build system for gamedev.

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