[GSoC 2014] Integrating Clang in KDevelop

[Milian Wolff]

On Thursday 06 March 2014 10:50:33 Denis Steckelmacher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to post this e-mail on the KDevelop mailing-list
> (kdevelop-devel at kde.org), but it seems to have been blocked even if I am
> subscribed to the mailing-list. As you seem to be the primary developer
> of the kdev-clang plugin, I send you this e-mail so that you can forward
> it to the right people.

Hey Denis,

I don't see any of your mails on the mailing list, please try again. And 
double-check whether the address is correct (see TO address of this email, 
please direct your replies there).

> I have seen on the KDE's GSoC Idea Page that an idea for the Google
> Summer of Code is to polish the Clang plugin of KDevelop, first publicly
> presented several weeks ago, at the end of the Kate/KDevelop Sprint 2014.
> 
> It's a project that interests me greatly, because I use Clang a my
> primary compiler, KDevelop as my IDE of predilection, and I always
> wanted to see the two integrated. As my GSoC 2011 was about using Clang
> to compile OpenCL C code and to execute it, I had the occasion to dig
> into the internals of Clang and LLVM.
> 
> The Idea page lists several features that can still be added to the
> Clang plugin, and a project involving the development of a checker
> framework. The most interesting fact about Clang is that it is a
> compiler. By using Clang, KDevelop could highlight every compile error,
> in the spirit of what Java IDEs do ("if the IDE says it is okay, then it
> will compile"). Would it be possible to implement that during the
> summer? Does this behavior needs that the new checker framework is first
> implemented?
> 
> My preference goes for the Clang integration project, but if you think
> that the checker framework will be more useful, it is also a project for
> which I would be glad to apply.

Sounds cool but please note that we prefer to give students a chance at the 
GSOC which previously supplied patches already. So get your hands dirty _now_. 
Also, note that there are probably multiple people interested in this project.

Furthermore, from the above it sounds as if you have not yet played with the 
Clang plugin, as some of the stuff you mention is already implemented there, 
most notably the integration of the compile errors.

The checker framework is something different, it would be a framework to 
integrate tools such as linters, valgrind, clang's analyzers etc. pp.

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
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