Compilation Database Generator

Tool for generating clang/LLVM's JSON Compilation Database file for make-based build systems.

It's aimed mainly at non-cmake (cmake already generates compilation database) large codebases. Inspired by projects like YCM-Generator and Bear, but it's supposed to be faster (mainly with large projects), since it doesn't need a clean build (as the current available tools do) to get the compile commands, to achieve this it uses the make options -Bnk to generate the compilation database file. Also, it's more cross-compiling friendly than YCM-generator's fake-toolchanin approach.

Dependencies

• Python >= 2.7
• GNU make ( >= version?)

Usage

Generate compile_commands.json using compiledb's "make wrapper" script, executing Makefile target all:

$ compiledb-make all > compile_commands.json

Generate compile_commands.json using compiledb's "make wrapper" script, using custom_makefile.mk as main Makefile:

$ compiledb-make -f custom_makefile.mk > compile_commands.json

Genrate compile_commands.json for some AOSP module (assuming you're running the script from the root of AOSP tree):

$ compiledb-aosp -o compile_commands.json <aosp/module/path>

Parse a build log file and prints the compilation database to stdout:

$ compiledb-parser . < build-log.txt

Testing / Contributing

I've implemented it basically because I needed to index some AOSP's modules for navigating and studying purposes (after having no satisfatory results with current tools such as YCM-Generator and Bear). So I've reworked YCM-Generator, which resulted in compiledb-gen-parser and used successfully to generate compilation database for some AOSP modules in ~1min running in a [Docker][docker] container and then I've been able to use some great tools such as Vim + YouCompleteMe + rtags + chromatica.nvim with the codebase.

Even though it's working ok in my environment, with AOSP 5.0, etc, it's still a work in progress and not well tested yet. So, give it a try! Report the issues you got, and maybe send some PR's :)

• Windows not supported yet (at least not tested yet in Cygwin/MinGW)
• Tested only on Linux (Arch Linux) so far

License

GNU GPLv3