Using an IDE

Live Code Analysis

While developing the Haiku codebase, it is possible to generate an inventory of compile commands by passing the -c flag to jam. The resulting compile_commands.json document will assist tools such as

=> clangd

in live analyzing our source code.

Generating the compile_commands.json for clangd:

$ mkdir generated.clangd && cd generated.clangd
$ configure --build-cross-tools x86_64 --cross-tools-source ../../buildtools
$ jam -anc @nightly-anyboot
$ ln -sr compile_commands.json ../compile_commands.json

When you use an editor which supports

=> clangd

such as

=> helix

or

=> vim

(with the clangd plugin),

=> clangd

will have knowledge of the relevant include paths and build flags for every source file within the Haiku codebase.

Tip: When new source code files are added, you will need to run though the process above for a complete database.