[cfe-dev] implementation of code completion and source code browsing for an IDE

[Douglas Gregor]

On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:53 AM, Jared Low wrote:

> We are using Clang as our compiler, and I'm implementing code completion and source code browsing, including:
> goto definition
> find all references to functions, variables, data types, and macros in project
> call graphs
> list of functions, types, macros, and variables in project and each source file
> list of included files in each source file
> 
> I'm new to Clang, but in looking at the libraries, it seems I could use the clangIndex library for the source code browsing and the clangFrontend library for the code completion. The clangIndex library already has things that I need like the declReferenceMap and the callGraph. 
> 
> I also found libclang, which seems to provide a lot of the basic functionality that I need as well. 
> 
> My question is whether I should use libclang or the clangIndex and clangFrontend libraries? 

Please use libclang, which is designed for this kind of IDE integration. If it doesn't provide a feature that you want, let's work on extending libclang with that functionality.

	- Doug
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