Method

IdeBuildSystemDiscoverydiscover

Declaration

gchar*
ide_build_system_discovery_discover (
  IdeBuildSystemDiscovery* self,
  GFile* project_file,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  gint* priority,
  GError** error
)

Description

This virtual method can be used to try to discover the build system to use for a particular project. This might be used in cases like Flatpak where the build system can be determined from the .json manifest rather than auto-discovery by locating project files.

Parameters

project_file

Type: GFile

A GFile containing the project file (a directory)

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

cancellable

Type: GCancellable

A GCancellable or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

priority

Type: gint*

A location for the priority.

The argument will be set by the function.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gchar*

The hint for the build system, which should match what the build system returns from ide_build_system_get_id().

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.