CMake server

[phuicy]

Cmake has released its latest version
https://blog.kitware.com/cmake-3-7-0-available-for-download/
of particular interest:

A new "cmake-server(7)" mode was added to provide semantic
information about a CMake-generated buildsystem to clients through a
JSON protocol.

So far server-mode basically produces data on the project structure.
But server-mode is supposed to get new functionality, some of which will require interactions between the caller and CMake (e.g. syntax highlighting and debugging the build system).

This could be very useful for this project. In particular, all debugging tools that will be undoubtably integrated with this.

I will start looking at how to integrate it. Any ideas?

thanks
Guy

[JBakamovic]

Currently, there is no CMake integration in yavide so integrating cmake-server would actually be the first step towards to that goal. From the quick look, it seems that it could also be used to extract information about the include paths, compilation flags etc. which would be relevant for implementing/configuring IDE services such as auto-completion engines, source code syntax highlighting, indexing and alike.

How to start? I would go and start integrating it as a service. In order to get familiar with the services framework, besides the documentation, perhaps it would be best to have a look at one of the services implementation (i.e. clang-formatter).