Add 'Integration with IDEs' section.
For now, this section is mostly a reference to the documentation of gen_compile_commands, also in doc/build, but it can be futurely used as a guide for other IDE-friendly features.
Signed-off-by: Joao Marcos Costa jmcosta944@gmail.com --- doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst | 1 + doc/build/tools.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst b/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst index 6b32eb678a..da812525fe 100644 --- a/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst +++ b/doc/build/gen_compile_commands.rst @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +.. _gen-compile-commands-label:
==================== gen_compile_commands diff --git a/doc/build/tools.rst b/doc/build/tools.rst index ec01722925..5cdbf27d83 100644 --- a/doc/build/tools.rst +++ b/doc/build/tools.rst @@ -45,3 +45,16 @@ Launch the MSYS2 shell of the MSYS2 environment, and do the following::
$ make tools-only_defconfig $ make tools-only + +Integration with IDEs +--------------------- + +IDEs and text editors (e.g., VSCode, Emacs, Vim, Neovim) typically offer +plugins to enhance the development experience, such as Clangd LSP. These +plugins provide features like code navigation (i.e., jumping to definitions +and declarations), code completion, and code formatting. + +U-Boot provides a script (i.e., scripts/gen_compile_commands.py) that +generates a compilation database to be utilized by Clangd LSP for code +navigation. For detailed usage instructions, please refer to the script's +documentation: :ref:`gen-compile-commands-label`.