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12/02/2023

01:17 PM Ruby Feature #20034: [mkmf] Support creating a compilation database for C language tooling

kjtsanaktsidis (KJ Tsanaktsidis) wrote in #note-3:
> I wonder if a middle ground between "in cruby" and "in a gem that ~nobody knows about" would be to include this functionality in the `rake-compiler` gem.
This was my initial idea t... pounce (Calvin Lee)

12/01/2023

10:11 PM Ruby Feature #20034: [mkmf] Support creating a compilation database for C language tooling

kjtsanaktsidis (KJ Tsanaktsidis) wrote in #note-1:
> Does this do what you want? (I haven’t used it in a year or so, so it could just be broken at the moment - if so let me know and I’ll try and fix it).
I found this during my search... pounce (Calvin Lee)

01:59 PM Ruby Feature #20034 (Open): [mkmf] Support creating a compilation database for C language tooling

# Abstract
Ruby projects are often developed with C extensions. These can be easily compiled by ruby by using `create_makefile` in `mkmf.rb`. Unfortunately, most C tooling is unable to interpret the ruby build system for C files, and ... pounce (Calvin Lee)