Support for generation of compilation database

[acecilia]

Hi 👋

Would be nice to support the generation of compilation databases. Xcpretty seems to support this already: https://github.com/xcpretty/xcpretty#reporters

Thanks!

[pepicrft]

@acecilia would you like to generate an HTML report from your compilation?

[acecilia]

Mmm what do you mean? Sorry, I dont understand the question

At the time of writing, my goal was to generate a compilation database to pass to swiftlint. After looking into it, I end up writing a script to manually generate it

[jlmendezbonini]

@acecilia would you mind sharing the scripts that you ended using to create the compilation database? thanks!

[acecilia]

See some examples here: https://github.com/acecilia/swift-compilation-database

[KarthikJay]

xcpretty supports generation of compile_commands.json files using the following flag: -r json-compilation-database

Currently, xcbeautify doesn't support this reporter: The value 'json-compilation-database' is invalid for '--report '

[adenisonafifi]

The compilation database can be used by clangd for code completion when working outside of XCode on a Mac C++ project. This is a great feature from xcpretty but now the xcpretty project is unsupported.

[moshe-foreflight]

+1 for compilation database.

[jaysoffian]

Parsing the output of xcodebuild to generate a compilation database is fraught with peril. Use -gen-cdb-fragment-path instead. See https://gist.github.com/T1T4N/f4d63a44476eb5c7046cc561cb8c7f77 for guidance.

[jmonroe]

+1 on this.
The compilation database is required for SonarScanner to scan projects correctly.

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