Build Logger

This tool can capture the build process and generate a JSON Compilation Database

Compilation

To build the project execute

make all test

Usage

Set the following environment variables:

export LD_PRELOAD=`pwd`/build/lib/`uname -m`/ldlogger.so
export CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE="gcc:g++:clang:clang++:cc:c++"
# The output compilation JSON file.
export CC_LOGGER_FILE=`pwd`/compilation.json
# Log linker build actions to the JSON file. Optional. Default: false
export CC_LOGGER_KEEP_LINK=true

then when you call gcc from a sub-shell (e.g. as a part of a Make build process), compilation.json will be created. For example: bash -c "gcc -c something.c" will create

compilation.json:
[
	{
		"directory": "/home/john_doe/",
		"command": "/usr/bin/gcc-4.8 -c /home/john_doe/something.c",
		"file": "/home/john_doe/something.c"
	}
]

Environment Variables

CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE

You can change the compilers that should be logged. Set CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE environment variable to a colon separated list.

For example (default):

export CC_LOGGER_GCC_LIKE="gcc:g++:clang:clang++:cc:c++"

The logger will match any compilers with gcc,g++, clang, clang++, cc and c++ in their filenames.

CC_LOGGER_FILE

Output file to generate compilation database into. This can be a relative or absolute path.

CC_LOGGER_JAVAC_LIKE

You can specify the javac like compilers that should be logged as a colon separated string list.

CC_LOGGER_DEF_DIRS

If the environment variable is defined, the logger will extend the compiler argument list in the compilation database with the pre-configured include paths of the logged compiler.

CC_LOGGER_ABS_PATH

If the environment variable is defined, all relative paths in the compilation commands after -I, -idirafter, -imultilib, -iquote, -isysroot -isystem, -iwithprefix, -iwithprefixbefore, -sysroot, --sysroot will be converted to absolute PATH when written into the compilation database.

CC_LOGGER_DEBUG_FILE

Output file to print log messages. If this environment variable is not defined it will do nothing.

CC_LOGGER_KEEP_LINK

This environment variable is optional. If its value is not true then object files will be removed from the build action. For example in case of this build command: gcc main.c object1.o object2.so the object1.o and object2.so will be removed and only gcc main.c will be captured. If only object files are provided to the compiler then the complete build action will be thrown away. This means that build actions which only perform linking will not be captured. We consider a file as object file if its extension is .o, .so or .a.