Re: KDevelop syntax parser is barely usable

On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 11:57, Sven Brauch <mail-ITmcY+a7/[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, 7 November 2018 12:11:12 CET Steve the Fiddle wrote:
> > The problem may be in part, due to
> > Audacity now making more use of C++11, and a little C++14, with more
> > templates and broader use of "modern" C++ idioms.
>
> FWIW, this is almost always a setup problem, usually include paths and/or
> preprocessor defines not being set up correctly. For CMake, KDevelop is
> very
> good at setting this up automatically, for automake much less so.
>

It would be really really nice if there were better documentation for
setting up. I've been struggling with this ever since KDevelop 5 was first
released, and I've managed to improve parsing from "totally useless" to
"barely usable". Despite all of my efforts I have been unable to improve
further.

I did find some documentation re. setting up KDevelop for WxWidgets
applications, but it was many years out of date, so not really helpful.

If this is just a setup problem, and anyone can help me get KDevelop to to
parse the Audacity code reasonably well (
https://github.com/audacity/audacity), then I'd be happy to write up some
documentation for KDevelop (I write some of the documentation for Audacity).

Steve



>
> If include paths, compiler flags and definitions are set correctly,
> KDevelop's
> parser will be very close to perfect, since it uses clang behind the
> scenes.
> It doesn't matter how complex your template code is.
>
> Performance is a different topic, but correctness is very good these days.
>
> Best,
> Sven