vim doesn't appear to find .clang_complete

Question

In trying to setup auto completion for C using clang complete in vim, and so far, when I'm inside a .c file, I kind of get auto completion when I hit ctrl+x,u. However it only displays some symbols.

None of the functions that's in the included headers appear in the auto complete popup box. It appears that only typedefs are showing?

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The project structure is very simple:

$ tree -ap
.
├── [-rwxrw-r--]  .clang_complete
├── [-rwxrw-r--]  makefile
└── [drwxrw-r--]  src
    └── [-rwxrw-r--]  FlightControl.c

1 directory, 3 files

I tried creating the .clang_complete file inside the project folder, that contains the following:

-I/.../Libraries/xpSDK/CHeaders/XPLM

I double checked the path to the XPLM headers, and it is correct.

Any ideas whats wrong?

Just deleted .clang_complete to see what happens, and that causes a Pattern not found error, meaning my .clang_complete file is being parsed. But why still, am I only seeing typedefs, no functions at all! — josef.van.niekerk, Dec 18 '13 at 19:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '13 at 20:24

During completion libclang tries to do its best by ignoring errors to present a user with the longest list of matches. I guess that you don't have XPLM_API macro defined. As it is used to declare every function in headers, you won't see any functions in completion list. Looking at defines in XPLMDefs.h I think that libclang gets Platform not defined! error (maybe even several times).

It should work if you define your platform for completion, I did this by adding -DLIN to .clang_complete file and completion works now.

So it doesn't seem to be an issue of vim or clang_complete, though it'd be nice to have a warning in such case.

vim doesn't appear to find .clang_complete

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