Preprocessor and parsing

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2015-02-06 14:29 GMT-03:00 Shashank Chintalagiri <shashank at chintal.in>:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently been trying to use kdevelop to build some embedded code, and
> seem to have run into a rather trying glitch.
>
> A lot of the code, both within the header files and libraries that I intend
> to use and the code that I intend to write, depends heavily on preprocessor
> directives - most importantly the -mmcu compiler flag and the directives it
> generates. In the absence of this directive, the preprocessor dumps out of
> most of the header files because it doesn't know which processor it should
> set up the defines for.
>
> Some very old posts on the internets suggested that kdevelop 3.x did, at
> some point, have the ability to add extra preprocessor directives to the
> parser. Try as I might, I can't find anything like that on 4.6.0, which
> makes using kdevelop for this disturbing.
>
> So here's what I would like to know / request :
>
> * Is there a way to specify custom preprocessor defines for the parser in
> kdevelop? During the build cmake provides the necessary flags to the
> compiler and the build works fine - I just need to be able to set some
> relatively sane default during development to make autocomplete and
> crossreferencing work within the editor and kdevelop.

Only way I can think of would involve editing kdevelop's code.

> * Is there any way in which kdevelop's parser announces itself to the
> preprocessor? While not ideal (since it'll probably need to go into multiple
> files), it should be fundamentally sufficient if I could do something like :
>
> #ifdef KDEVELOP_PARSER
> #define __MSP4305529__ (or what have you)
> #endif
>
> This would allow the code to compile fine while being compatible with the
> IDE.

The macro is called "IN_KDEVELOP_PARSER".

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