New in version 3.5.
Enable/Disable output of compile commands during generation.
If enabled, generates a compile_commands.json
file containing the exact compiler calls for all translation units of the project in machine-readable form. The format of the JSON file looks like:
[ { "directory": "/home/user/development/project", "command": "/usr/bin/c++ ... -c ../foo/foo.cc", "file": "../foo/foo.cc" }, ... { "directory": "/home/user/development/project", "command": "/usr/bin/c++ ... -c ../foo/bar.cc", "file": "../foo/bar.cc" } ]
This is initialized by the CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS
environment variable.
Note
This option is implemented only by Makefile Generators and the Ninja
. It is ignored on other generators.
This option currently does not work well in combination with the UNITY_BUILD
target property or the CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD
variable.
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https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.19/variable/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.html