Header files completion when using Cmake to generate a compilation database

[jvillasante]

I'm using CMake -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON to generate a compile_commands.json for my project. Irony works well for .cpp files but not for .h files. It seems that CMake doesn't include header files in the compile_commands.json file, but I'm still asking here in case that there is a workaround.

[Sarcasm]

Hello,

The question is on point.
I'm working on a tool to solve this issue: https://github.com/Sarcasm/compdb

For example, to have a compilation database with headers for irony-mode, one can do this:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON ../server
mkdir /tmp/irony-headerdb
compdb headerdb -p . > /tmp/irony-headerdb/compile_commands.json
compdb dump -p . -p /tmp/irony-headerdb/ > ../server/compile_commands.json
emacs ../server/src/Irony.h
# M-x irony-cdb-menu RET

It's more complex than it needs to be but still somewhat usable.

[albusshin]

I'm curious, what's the current status of this issue? Is this work still ongoing?