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Formatting CMakeLists.txt with Clang-Format

Is there a way to get the clang format to format the CMake file correctly?

I have a file .clang-format

with Language: Cpp

and BasedOnStyle: Google

. No other language is specified.

Ideally I would like to customize the style, however the biggest problem right now is that clang-format is indenting many lines. The longer the file, the more indentation levels I get.

Questions:

  • Is there a way to get clang-format to be recognized CMakeLists.txt

    as a different language than Cpp?
  • Does the clang format have the ability for me to add rules for the CMake language?
  • Is there an alternative to clang format in this context?

Example

Input

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.2)
project(HELLO)

add_executable (helloDemo demo.cxx demo_b.cxx)
add_executable (goodByeDemo goodbye.cxx goodbye_b.cxx)

Actual output

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.2) project(HELLO)

    add_executable(helloDemo demo.cxx demo_b.cxx)
        add_executable(goodByeDemo goodbye.cxx goodbye_b.cxx)

Expected Result: Same as input. Or maybe there are no spaces between commands and parentheses.

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  1. Related question: is there a utility that can reformat the cmake file

  2. Clang format cannot do this, but an alternative exists now: https://github.com/cheshirekow/cmake_format

Example - invalid input:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.2) project(HELLO)

    add_executable(helloDemo demo.cxx demo_b.cxx)
        add_executable(goodByeDemo goodbye.cxx goodbye_b.cxx)

Command:



pip install --user cmake_format  # Or sudo to install system-wide
clang-format -i CMakeLists.txt

Resulting output:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.2)
project(HELLO)

add_executable(helloDemo demo.cxx demo_b.cxx)
add_executable(goodByeDemo goodbye.cxx goodbye_b.cxx)
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