[cfe-dev] Using qmake and LibTooling

[Manuel Klimek]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Jens Weller <JensWeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> Yes, but still I don't wanna use clang with qmake, or be able to build clang with qmake.
> I can build clang with cmake, and thats fine in that way.
> All I need is to make use of the libraries provided by clang such as LibTooling, to build Tools that use Qt as a Frontend. And this works now.

The question is: do you want to *run* those tools over code that uses qmake?

Cheers,
/Manuel

>
> kind regards,
>
> Jens Weller
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:28:54 +0200
>> Von: Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com>
>> An: Jens Weller <JensWeller at gmx.de>
>> CC: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>, cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
>> Betreff: Re: [cfe-dev] Using qmake and LibTooling
>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Jens Weller <JensWeller at gmx.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Datum: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:44:36 +0400
>> >> Von: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>
>> >> An: Jens Weller <jensweller at gmx.de>
>> >> CC: "cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu" <cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> >> Betreff: Re: [cfe-dev] Using qmake and LibTooling
>> >>
>> >> If all you need is to use Qt in your clang-based tools, I think you
>> should
>> >> stick to CMake. It both supports Qt out of the box and is supported as
>> a
>> >> build system for Clang tools. You can use it within Qt Creator as well.
>> >>
>> >> If you want to use LibTooling with qmake-based builds, you need to
>> >> implement CompilationDatabase support for qmake which is not trivial.
>> >
>> > I usually stick to the QtSDK, and I'm right now not so familiar with
>> cmake.
>> > Also both uses the same compiler, shouldn't be to hard to get this setup
>> running.
>> > I have build the libs with the right mingw version, should be able to
>> use them with qmake.
>> >
>> > CompilationDatabase? Isn't this a type with in the library?
>> > Why should that have any influence on the make system?
>>
>> CompilationDatabase is how clang tools figure out how to run clang on
>> a source file.
>> In general you have 2 options to get this running with a new build system:
>> 1. make the build system output a compilation_database.json file as
>> part of its configuration step - for meta build systems, this is the
>> preferred way (that's what we did to CMake); see
>> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html
>> 2. write your own CompilationDatabase implementation that can detect
>> the build files for your project, parse them, and provide the compile
>> command lines
>>
>> Cheers,
>> /Manuel
>>
>> >
>> > regards,
>> >
>> > Jens Weller
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