Build Selector for Neovim

Utility to intelligently calculate likely makeprg targets to easily select a build target. This allows follow-up use of :make commands to compile the programs.

Overview

Detects files such as Makefile and CMakeLists.txt and builds up options that you may want to use as makeprg.

Makefile

Detects Makefile and makefile, and adds options make -f <FILE>

CMake

Detects CMakeLists.txt and then searches for build*/CMakeCache.txt and adds cmake --build <PATH> --parallel for each of them.

Devcontainers

Detects .devcontainer.json, .devcontainer/devcontainer.json, .devcontainer/*/devcontainer/json (depth one) to find devcontainers.

Each devcontainer duplicates previous entries with docker exec <NAME> <COMMAND> where NAME is the devcontainer name, and COMMAND is one of the earlier detected makeprg options. For example,

docker exec MyContainerName cmake --build build-gcc-debug --parallel

Setup

Lazy:

{
    "segcore/build-selector.nvim",
    dependencies = {
        "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim", -- Optional; to simplify file paths
    },
    opts = {},
}

Available options, documented with their default values:

opts = {
    simplify = true, -- Simplify file paths relative to the current working directory
    add_command = true, -- Add the :BuildSelector user command
    selected_callback = function(item) vim.opt.makeprg = item end, -- Called when an item is selected
}

Usage

:BuildSelector

Pops up the default ui-select menu with selections, e.g.

1. make -f Makefile
2. cmake --build build-gcc-debug --parallel
3. cmake --build build-gcc-release --parallel
4. cmake --build build-rpi-release --parallel