Provide manual commands to regenerate `CompileCommands` and `ClangdFile`?

[jmjoy]

Type: Feature Request

I found that the Arm CMSIS Solution extension provides two options:

• cmsis-csolution.autoGenerateCompileCommands (Automatically generate compile_commands.json and RTE files for the active csolution context)
• cmsis-csolution.autoGenerateClangdFile (Automatically generate a .clangd file for the active csolution context)

However, when significant project changes occur, clangd may fail, requiring a workspace restart to regenerate these files.

Is there a way to manually regenerate CompileCommands and ClangdFile?

[jkrech]

When you open the "output panel" and select "CMSIS Build Manager" you should see that it invokes: cbuild setup <solutionname>.csolution.yml --context-set ... whenever you e.g. edit and save the csolution.yml file this command is repeated. It will update the compile_commands.json file and copies it to the output artifacts folder. You can manually invoke the command from the terminal window inside VSCode to trigger an update manually. Does that help?

[jmjoy]

Thank you very much.

Would it be more user-friendly to provide a VSCode command to manually run cbuild setup?

[jkrech]

In my view, this should become part of cmsis-csolution.refresh which it currently does not seem to be.