[cfe-dev] [cfe-commits] Design proposal: Add custom compilation database formats as plugins

[Stephen Kelly]

On 07/19/2012 01:32 PM, Manuel Klimek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chandler Carruth wrote:
>>
>>> That said, the latest version of CMake already has support for JSON +
>>> Ninja -- we didn't contribute it, so I don't know what strategy they
>>> followed, but you should look at that and talk to the ninja and CMake
>>> developers before going too far here.
>>>
>> I wrote it and pretty much followed the same thing Manuel did in the
>> Makefile generator.
>>
>> The commit which actually adds the feature is trivial:
>>
>> http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=db839bec7d076b54c5e9ad0d19386a26557a509e
>>
>> Manuel mentioned before that he'd like to see ninja being able to generate a
>> database without cmake too though:
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/3678/focus=3697
>>
>> As Chandler said, it's not in a release yet, but will be in the next release
>> in a few weeks. Feel free to test the release candidate (I would appreciate
>> if you did)
> I know multiple people who are refusing to work without this any more,
> I've been using it since it landed in "next". So consider this part
> pretty well tested (at least on the llvm codebase).
>

Good to hear :)

Thanks,

Steve.