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<span id="variable:CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS"></span><h1>CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS<a class="headerlink" href="#cmake-export-compile-commands" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
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<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.5.</span></p>
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<p>Enable/Disable output of compile commands during generation.</p>
<p>If enabled, generates a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">compile_commands.json</span></code> file containing the exact
compiler calls for all translation units of the project in machine-readable
form. The format of the JSON file looks like:</p>
<div class="highlight-javascript notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">[</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;directory&quot;</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;/home/user/development/project&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;command&quot;</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;/usr/bin/c++ ... -c ../foo/foo.cc&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;file&quot;</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;../foo/foo.cc&quot;</span>
<span class="p">},</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;directory&quot;</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;/home/user/development/project&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;command&quot;</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;/usr/bin/c++ ... -c ../foo/bar.cc&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s2">&quot;file&quot;</span><span class="o">:</span> <span class="s2">&quot;../foo/bar.cc&quot;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">]</span>
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<p>This is initialized by the <span class="target" id="index-0-envvar:CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../envvar/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.html#envvar:CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS" title="CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS</span></code></a> environment
variable, and initializes the <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_tgt/EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.html#prop_tgt:EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS" title="EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS</span></code></a> target
property for all targets.</p>
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<p>This option is implemented only by <a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-generators.7.html#makefile-generators"><span class="std std-ref">Makefile Generators</span></a>
and the <span class="target" id="index-0-generator:Ninja"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../generator/Ninja.html#generator:Ninja" title="Ninja"><code class="xref cmake cmake-generator docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Ninja</span></code></a>. It is ignored on other generators.</p>
<p>This option currently does not work well in combination with
the <span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:UNITY_BUILD"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_tgt/UNITY_BUILD.html#prop_tgt:UNITY_BUILD" title="UNITY_BUILD"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UNITY_BUILD</span></code></a> target property or the
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