Re[1]: [cedet-semantic] using externally-generated semanticdb databases

[Eric M. L. <er...@si...>]

>>> Vladimir Vukicevic <vla...@po...> seems to think that:
>Howdy,
>
>I've put together a little tool that can generate a 
>semanticdb-file-compatible tags save file from a set of C# assemblies. 
>However, I'm unsure of how to actually get semantic to use this database 
>for tag lookup.  I've been able to manually add it to 
>semanticdb-project-system-databases, and was able to get brutish 
>searches to succeed, but as none of the completion methods seem to use 
>brutish searches I didn't have much further luck.
>
>Is the right way to do this to create a csharp subclass of 
>project-database-system, and to implement a new load-system-database? 
>That would only get me as far as getting it into 
>project-system-databases in a cleaner manner, but I don't think it will 
>resolve the search/completion issue.
>
>Apologies for bumbling around like this in the source; my elisp is very 
>very rusty :)  Any pointers in what to poke or examples to follow would 
>be much appreciated!
  [ ... ]

That's pretty nifty that you have figured out that much.  The whole
system database in a file thing has not been fully finished so it is
not surprising that you had some troubles.

The cache file should go in ~/.semanticdb/ and the file names, for a
C file, might be "!usr!include!semantic.cache".

At this point, it should be automatically loaded by semantic-load.el
which is a part of the default system setup.  If not, run
(semanticdb-load-system-caches).

Lastly, you need to make sure the C# version of
semantic-dependency-include-path is set to the original location of
your C# header type files.  That way, the versions of the search that
scan header files can find it.

At this point, I think those header file searching routines may need
an update to scan system header files.  I don't remember much about
that aspect of this, but it has been on my todo list for a while.

Good Luck.
Eric

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