adcm is a python library that allow you to work on CMake project in Visual Studio Code easily with following features:

• real-time CMakeLists.txt update.
• custom workflow tasks and triggers.

This project was originally created to help me generate compile_commands.json automatically, which is needed by clangd extension in Visual Studio Code. Now I improve it further and public for everyone to use.

project structure

Project-Dir/
|
|-- main.cpp
|-- CMakeList.txt
|-- workflow.py

necessary extensions

• C/C++ by Microsoft
• Python by Microsoft
• clangd by LLVM
• CMake Language Support by Jose Torres

NOTICE please uninstall extensions CMake and CMake Tools in advance.

workflow.py

import os
import adcm

adcm.new_project("my-project")

def mkdir_build():
    if not os.path.exists("build"):
        os.mkdir("build")

adcm.add_task(
    "generate",
    [
        mkdir_build,
        "cd build && cmake .. -G Ninja -D CMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -D CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON"
    ]
)

adcm.add_trigger(
    "auto-cmake-generate",
    ["CMakeLists.txt"],
    ["generate"]
)

adcm.launch()

Then run workflow.py, and done.

Read Documentation for more details.

Licensed under the MIT license, read LICENSE for details.