Since header files are not compilation units, CMake does not require you to specify them in the CMakeLists.txt file. As a result, unless a header file is explicitly added, CMake won't know about it, and when generating IDE-based projects, CMake won't put the header files into the IDE project. LLVM currently tries to deal with this in two ways: 1) It looks for all .h files that are in the project directory, and adds those. 2) llvm_add_library() understands the ADDITIONAL_HEADERS argument, which allows one to list an arbitrary list of headers. This patch takes things one step further. It adds the ability for llvm_add_library() to take an ADDITIONAL_HEADER_DIRS argument, which will specify a list of folders which CMake will glob for header files. Furthermore, it will glob not only for .h files, but also for .inc files. Included in this CL is an update to one of the existing users of ADDITIONAL_HEADERS to use this new argument instead, to serve as an illustration of how this cleans up the CMake. The big advantage of this new approach is that until now, there was no way for the IDE projects to locate the header files that are in the include tree. In other words, if you are in, for example, lib/DebugInfo/DWARF, the corresponding includes for this project will be located under include/DebugInfo/DWARF. Now, in the CMakeLists.txt for lib/DebugInfo/DWARF, you can simply write: ADDITIONAL_HEADER_DIRS ../../include/DebugInfo/DWARF as an argument to llvm_add_library(), and all header files will get added to the IDE project.
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LGTM. This seems like general goodness that reduces the complexity of our CMake files, and I verified it works as expected for Xcode.
Can you please cleanup any uses of ADDITIONAL_HEADERS that make sense?
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Yes, will probably do that as a followup, and simultaneously deprecate the
use of ADDITIONAL_HEADERS.
If someone really wanted to get clever, they could also update
llvm_add_library to translate the source directory to a corresponding
include directory and automatically append it to ADDITIONAL_HEADER_DIRS.
This would make all IDE projects way better in my opinion.