kha-dinh/macOS-compiledb.md

Created September 30, 2023 03:36

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Generate compilation database on MacOS for non-CMake projects without bear

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Somehow bear did not work on my setup. Here is an alternative that collects the build log and use compiledb to generate compile_commands.json

First generate the build log by tracing executed commands

gmake SHELL='sh -x' 2>&1 | tee make.txt

Now we parse the build log:

compiledb --parse make.txt

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