bear2cmake

A simple Python script to help to create CMakeLists.txt for an arbitrary project

Usage

bear2cmake.py [options]
    Create CMakeLists.txt based on compile_commands.json (e.g. produced by _bear_)


Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --yaml=YAML_FILENAME, --yaml-file=YAML_FILENAME, --yaml-filename=YAML_FILENAME
                        input file produced by _bear_
  --topdir=TOP_DIRECTORY, --top-dir=TOP_DIRECTORY
  --project=PROJECT_NAME, --project-name=PROJECT_NAME
                        filename with suffix (e.g. '.so')

The flow

configure your project (if apropriate)
run make (or may be other build system) via bear to get compile_commands.json
run bear2cmake --project=myproject > CMakeLists.txt to get CMakeLists.txt

What You get

CMakeLists.txt with

one target, which type depends on project-name parameter
target_sources aggregates all source files compiled during step(2) from the above paragraph
target_include_directories combines all -I parameters
target_compile_definitions combines all -D parameters

The Bear

Bear (Build EAR) is a tool to generate compilation database for clang tooling https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear

Included in all modern Linux distros, sudo apt install bear to install in Ubuntu

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