On 10/21/24 3:39 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi, pardon my ignorance. I'm trying to add some changes to the libvirt codebase (https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt). I've successfully built it with `meson setup /build` and a `compile_commands.json` was generated in the build folder. But vscode keeps showing that there are errors from trying to find certain files and identifiers. I have also copied the `compile_commands.json` to the root of the project with no success. I'm new to working on a large C codebase, as i'm mainly into Go. I have also installed the `meson.build` extension as prescribed in https://mesonbuild.com/IDE-integration.html, is there anything i'm missing?
I only used vscode once about 4 years ago, and have never used it for building libvirt, so I can't help you there, but I can tell you how I setup a build environment and build libvirt from a shell prompt. The following is on Fedora, and would work the same for any RHEL/CentOS derivative:
1) to make sure I have all necessary -devel packages and tools installed, I run:
sudo dnf builddep libvirt and allow it to install everything it asks to install. 2) to setup the build directory, I run: meson build -Dsystem=true 3) To just build the binaries: ninja -C build test or 4) to build rpm packages that can be installed with dnf: (first commit any local changes) ninja -C build dist && rpmbuild -ta build/meson-dist/libvirt*.tar.xz
