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A non-dependency python-based wrapper around g++/gcc for generating compile_commands.json for c/c++ projects

How to Use

• Prepend the path to this folder to $PATH. Note, the path to these wrappers needs to be the first item in $PATH. This approach also composes nicely with other wrappers such as ccache
• Set executable permissions on g++ and gcc i.e. chmod u+x g++
• Each compile command will generate its own command file with the default prefix "comp_"
• Change the default prefix by setting COMPDB_PREFIX to custom_prefix_
• Compile a project w/ make. Caveat if a compiler is referred to a full path it won't work
• Run python merge.py

Alternatives

This project is very similar to bear, compdb. bear is super powerful and less manual. Unfortunately, it comes with a large number of dependencies which makes it very difficult to use on non-Ubuntu Linux flavours.