how to setup codelite to develop arduino sketches/libs

[atesin]

... codelite looks way more featured than arduino ide (and maybe platformio and others)

i would like to use it for arduino/esp8266 libraries development as arduino ide is just for sketches... i would like to read a tutorial on how to configure include paths and environment so i won't see all those red arrows on margins and could right-click on a keyword > find symbol and it opens the header file were is implemented... not for build just for develop, so i then can test the library with a sketch in my arduino ide

[eranif]

tbh, never worked with Ardunio before. I am not sure what it has and what it does not. I am using for remote development or local development on Linux / Windows & macOS. Are you developing locally and then you "deploy" your code? do you perform some kind of cross-compile?

[atesin]

this is actually the problem i have:

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i dont want to "compile" really, but to edit and be able to find references and definitions in editor ... libraries and headers are in many different paths in arduino environment

[eranif]

The red markers you are seeing are coming from the clangd - which usually requires the complete build command for each file. It does that by reading a file (usually auto-generated by CMake) named compile_commands.json. Since you are not building the project, but rather only tries to edit you will need to "help" clangd to locate these files, creating a "compile_commands.json" it is probably not possible (since you do not intend to compile the project), the next best thing is to create the file compile_flags.txt and place it at the root folder of the workspace. https://clangd.llvm.org/installation#compile_flagstxt

Basically, it should look like this:

-I/include/path/1
-I/include/path/2
-DSOMETHING=1
...

After you create this file, restart the language server Ctrl-Shift-P and type "restart" in the search box.

[atesin]

do you mean that, in orded to not to have to generate the file manually, i need to try building with cmake or some compiler, so cmake build that file by me? ... and from where cmake or compiler takes that include paths? ... manual generation looks very complicated for someone like me

maybe i could try, nevermind the compilation fails or just produces intermediate files or a binary in a temp folder or go to null device.. i won't use that binary, just want the editor could find references , once my arduino libraries were done in codelite, i will compile my involved sketches with arduino ide

would be nice if language server could read include paths directly from ide configuration, or generate its file itself

[eranif]

would be nice if language server could read include paths directly from ide configuration

It can. What kind of workspace are you using? (CodeLite supports multiple, C/C++, File System workspace etc).

[atesin]

i have no idea of wat are you talking abour, sorry .... i dont even know what a workspace concept is .... i commonly see a text file and do right click > open with notepad++ , so now it seem i HAVE to create a project/workspace/whatever and add/link files/folders to it to make it work, anc configure project paths, etc

i was searching and i even didn't find where to open a folder/project already with lot of files, i found me forced to create a NEW project with a new name in a new folder, because i couldn't make codelite open the folder with the library i am trying to do .. or the "libraries" arduino folder and configure all include paths at once for all of them

forgive my lack of experience, i just installed and try to open the files with it as is (anyway codelite looks more "lite" than other lite ides like vscode, geany, netbeans, codeblocks, atom, etc)

the problem is i waste most of the time in open folders trying fo find the referenced files to see their code

[eranif]

https://docs.codelite.org/workspaces/file_system/

[atesin]

i follow that document, create a filesystem workspace that maches arduino libraries folder, add include paths in compile_flags.txt, then generate code completion with right clic in a folder... the red arrows gone but i am still unable to find references (symbols) by right click in some keywords

[atesin]

i make it work partially ... that document looks little ambiguous in this part:

Then the content of the code completion should contains the following:

where to enter that? .. i assumed is in the right clic folder > settings > compile_flags.txt tab , then i right click a folder and go code completion > generate compile_flags.txt however by enter that text in compile flags wont generate it?

so i did that, i observed the compile switches i introduced (include paths) also appeared in settings > general tab > arguments .. then i go right clic folder > generate completion file and restart language server, and it seem to work:

i still can see some yellow and red flags, is odd, here you can see <Stream.h> was located, but below it doesn't know what Stream's are o_Ô ... sometimes it finds symbols, sometimes don't... did i miss something?, are include paths recursive?

[Jarod42]

The #include just above #include <Stream.h> has red arrow too; that might issue an "unrecoverable" error (Stream.h might depends of that header, and with the above error class definition of Stream is wrong.

whereas compiler try to handle multiple error nicely, only the first error is really reliable.

[atesin]

by right clicking in "newlib_dirent.h" + find symbol now DOES open the file in a new tab , this file is in an include path i configured recently

however newlib_dirent.h shown below HAS an error, the same message the 'red arrow' above shows, 'inherited' from its included files:

that file `sys/cdefs.h is in a subdirectory of configured include paths, that is why my question about flat or recursive includes or if i miss or did something wrong