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diff --git a/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html b/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html index d5c9725062..007825a35d 100644 --- a/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html +++ b/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ <div id="content"> <h1>JSON Compilation Database Format Specification</h1> -<p>This document describes a format to specify how to replay +<p>This document describes a format for specifying how to replay single compilations independently of the build system.</p> <h2>Background</h2> -<p>Tools based on the C++ AST need full information how to +<p>Tools based on the C++ Abstract Syntax Tree need full information how to parse a translation unit. Usually this information is implicitly available in the build system, but running tools as part of the build system is not necessarily the best solution: @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ according to the build dependency graph.</li> </p> <h2>Supported Systems</h2> -<p>Currently <a href="http://cmake.org">CMake</a> support generation of compilation +<p>Currently <a href="http://cmake.org">CMake</a> (since 2.8.5) supports generation of compilation databases for Unix Makefile builds (Ninja builds in the works) with the option CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.</p> <p>Clang's tooling interface supports reading compilation databases; see @@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ is in the works.</p> <h2>Format</h2> <p>A compilation database is a JSON file, which consist of an array of -objects, where each object specifies one way a translation unit +"command objects", where each command object specifies one way a translation unit is compiled in the project.</p> -<p>Each object contains the translation unit's main file, the working +<p>Each command object contains the translation unit's main file, the working directory of the compile run and the actual compile command.</p> <p>Example: <pre> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ in the <b>command</b> or <b>file</b> fields must be either absolute or relative this directory.</li> <li><b>file:</b> The main translation unit source processed by this compilation step. This is used by tools as the key into the compilation database. There can be multiple -compile objects for the same file, for example if the same translation unit is +command objects for the same file, for example if the same source file is compiled with different configurations.</li> <li><b>command:</b> The compile command executed. After JSON unescaping, this must be a valid command to rerun the exact compilation step for the translation unit in |