Yoann Congal 3de9301538
[clangd] Add a build option to disable building dexp (#133124)
Building dexp on Debian 11 currently causes intermittent failures [0] [1].

Adding the CLANGD_BUILD_DEXP option to disable dexp from the build
allows Debian 11 users to build clang (albeit without the dexp tool).

This option is set to "Build Dexp" by default so, no change is expected
without manual setting.

[0]: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15803
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1101322
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clangd

clangd is a language server, and provides C++ IDE features to editors. This is not its documentation.

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Building and testing clangd

For a minimal setup on building clangd:

  • Clone the LLVM repo to $LLVM_ROOT.

  • Create a build directory, for example at $LLVM_ROOT/build.

  • Inside the build directory run: cmake $LLVM_ROOT/llvm/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;clang-tools-extra".

    • We suggest building in Release mode as building DEBUG binaries requires considerably more resources. You can check Building LLVM with CMake documentation for more details about cmake flags.
    • In addition to that using Ninja as a generator rather than default make is preferred. To do that consider passing -G Ninja to cmake invocation.
    • Finally, you can turn on assertions via -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTS=On.
  • Afterwards you can build clangd with cmake --build $LLVM_ROOT/build --target clangd, similarly run tests by changing target to check-clangd.