Installer compiledb avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• compiledb

Historique du projet

The official README says compiledb was written to index Android Open Source Project modules after the author found existing tools unsatisfactory. It reworked ideas from YCM-Generator and aimed to produce `compile_commands.json` quickly without always requiring a clean build, using Make dry-run and keep-going behavior to extract compile commands.

Historique d'adoption

PyPI records public compiledb releases starting in 2018. The Homebrew input records both Homebrew and Nix packaging, reflecting its role as a small command-line bridge between traditional Make projects and Clang-aware editor or language-server tooling.

Modes d'utilisation

compiledb can wrap `make`, parse build logs or stdin, and write Clang's `compile_commands.json` in arguments-list or command-string form. Its main audience is non-CMake projects that still want editor indexing, static analysis, or language-server support.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

The package is significant because `compile_commands.json` became a de facto interchange file for C and C++ tooling. compiledb gives Make-based projects a lightweight way to participate in that ecosystem without migrating their build system.

Chronologie

• 2018: PyPI records the first public compiledb release.
• 2025: PyPI and GitHub releases record 0.10.x releases.

Related projects

• compiledb is related to Clang's JSON Compilation Database format, Bear, YCM-Generator, cquery, ccls, and editor tooling such as YouCompleteMe.

Sources

• https://github.com/nickdiego/compiledb
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nickdiego/compiledb/master/README.md
• https://pypi.org/pypi/compiledb/json
• https://clang.llvm.org/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html