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Some users have expressed interest in a more "batteries included" way of
building via CMake[1], and a big part of that is providing easier access
to tooling external tools.
A straightforward way to accomplish this is to make it as simple as
possible is to enable the generation of the compile_commands.json file,
which is supported by many tools such as: clang-tidy, clang-format,
sourcetrail, etc.
This does come with a small run-time overhead during the configuration
step (~6 seconds on my machine):
Time to configure with CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=TRUE
real 1m9.840s
user 0m0.031s
sys 0m0.031s
Time to configure with CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=FALSE
real 1m3.195s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.015s
This seems like a small enough price to pay to make the project more
accessible to newer users. Additionally there are other large projects
like llvm [2] which has had this enabled by default for >6 years at the
time of this writing, and no real negative consequences that I can find
with my search-skills.
NOTE: That the compile_commands.json is currently produced only when
using the Ninja and Makefile generators. See The CMake documentation[3]
for more info.
1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAOjrSZusMSvs7AS-ZDsV8aQUgsF2ZA754vSDjgFKMRgi_oZAWw@mail.gmail.com/
2: 2c5712051b
3: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.html
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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