Bear VS vscode-cmake-tools

Have you tried Bear? I used it for several projects and overall it works very well.

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.

Try https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear

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).

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

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..

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.

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.

I guess your questionmarks are about installing "bear", he refers to this project: https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear

You just simply go to the root of your project, use bear and just open your C files. That's all.

After that I would recommend installing the MS CMake Tools extensions (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/main/do...), this discovers CMakeLists.txt files in the projects and then uses those to setup build- and debugging targets, and in general gives your an IDE-like experience, while still being more transparent than a "fat IDE" like Visual Studio or Xcode.

what do you mean? you need to create a CMakeLists.txt file, the extension can create one for you iirc, take a look at: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/main/docs/README.md

#https://medium.com/@onur.dundar1/cmake-tutorial-585dd180109b #https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/main/docs/README.md cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0.0) project(Zoom VERSION 0.1.0) include(CTest) enable_testing() set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17) if(${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} MATCHES Debug) message("Debug Build") add_definitions(-DDEBUG="Debug Build") elseif(${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} MATCHES Release) message("Release Build") add_definitions(-DRELEASE="Release Build") endif() #benXml add_library(benXml STATIC ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benXml/src/XmlRessource.cpp) target_sources(benXml PUBLIC ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benXml/src/include/tinyxml2.cpp) #benLog FILE(GLOB_RECURSE benLog_all_sources "lib/benLog/*.cpp") add_library(benLog STATIC ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benLog/src/Log.cpp ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benLog/src/LogConfig.cpp ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benLog/src/LogConsoleTarget.cpp ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benLog/src/LogFileTarget.cpp ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benLog/src/Logger.cpp ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benLog/src/LogLevel.cpp ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/benLog/src/LogTarget.cpp ) target_link_libraries(benLog benXml) #Zoom FILE(GLOB_RECURSE all_sources "src/*.cpp") add_executable(Zoom ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/Zoom.cpp) target_sources(Zoom PUBLIC ${all_sources}) target_include_directories(Zoom PUBLIC src lib) target_include_directories(Zoom PUBLIC src) target_link_libraries(Zoom mingw32) target_link_libraries(Zoom SDL2main) target_link_libraries(Zoom SDL2) target_link_libraries(Zoom SDL2_mixer) target_link_libraries(Zoom SDL2_image) target_link_libraries(Zoom SDL2_ttf) target_link_libraries(Zoom box2d) target_link_libraries(Zoom benXml) target_link_libraries(Zoom benLog) set(CPACK_PROJECT_NAME ${PROJECT_NAME}) set(CPACK_PROJECT_VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION}) include(CPack)

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It sounds like you don't have a version of make itself installed in your environment. If you're using msys2 as your environment, you might have hit this bug, which at least has a workaround (symbolic link from mingw32-make.exe to make.exe )

Hey, what issues are you seeing with the CMake Tools extension? My team would definitely like to make sure that these issues are tracked here Issues · microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools (github.com). We'll get to them as soon as we can to make sure folks have a great experience with Code regardless of the build system they're on.