[Geany-Devel] [FT-plugins] Proposed "Features"

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 31.08.2016 um 16:52 schrieb Lex Trotman:
> On 1 September 2016 at 00:43, Thomas Martitz <kugel at rockbox.org> wrote:
>> Am 31.08.2016 um 16:39 schrieb Matthew Brush:
>>>
>>> I can't speak to all compiler libraries, but at least libclang, libpython
>>> and libvala "compile" the source (well just the front-end of the compiler is
>>> needed). They literally use the built-in compiler front ends to understand
>>> the code. In the case of libclang, it additionally provides helpful methods
>>> for performing IDE-related features on the AST, while say with libvala, the
>>> ft-plugin would be required to perform it's own analysis of the AST to
>>> implement those feaures, which is still a lot less work than in Geany/TM
>>> since it has access to the full AST/context and the ft-plugin need not fear
>>> encoding language specific semantics into its logic.
>>
>> How do you pass {C,CXX,CPP}FLAGS to libclang? And where do you get them
>> from?
> Libclang needs the full-fat build knowledge that "project" systems on
> other IDEs provide.  Another reason to keep it separate from Geany.

So one would have to adjust the build settings and one or more 
ft-plugins all the time?

IMO, complex build system integration is out of scope for ft-plugins. 
But I see that not all features can be supported properly without build 
system.

Best regards