[Question] list header files in meson introspect

[Arthapz]

Hi, i was wondering why meson don't list header files as source file in intro-targets ?
And has meson a way to retreive headers ? (it's needed for completing QtCreator support of meson)

[jeandet]

Maybe exporting anything that goes through files() to a dedicated introspection file or section could covers this and also any other type of file we would like to see from an IDE.

[Arthapz]

section could covers this and also any other type of file we would like to see from an IDE.

i think it's the best thing to do, in my situation a i want to have my glsl shaders to be in the IDE tree.

[jpakkane]

Have you added them to the target with the extra_files keyword argument?

[Arthapz]

Yes, and they don't appear in info-targets.json

[jeandet]

@jpakkane , I'm also not sure that attaching additional files to targets covers all use cases. I like the idea to use files() as proxy because it would allow to promote any file in IDE either attached to a target or not. For example you could add a readme in IDE project view without needing to cheat.
Also from what I remember from Meson code, it would have an happy side effect I think, it would force to use files() method internally any time we manipulate files which would allow to sanitize and normalize file path everywhere in Meson.

[Arthapz]

Hi, Any update on this ?

[mensinda]

This should be resolved with #7844. Note that this only covers extra_files. Headers in the target sources will still be ignored.