Indexing Chromium

[mohamedmansour]

Any tips on how to do this? Chromium contains a lot of languages like c, c++, obj-c, js, ts, python, go, and rust.

I am curious how it works in that scale. And I want to compare it to the speed of source.chromium.org when getting references for example.

[simonmar]

The biggest problem would be figuring out how to run the indexers, particularly for the C/C++/ObjC code. Glean has support for CMake but not Ninja, so you'd need to build something to get the CDB (compilation database) for every C/C++/ObjC file from the build system and then invoke the Glean clang indexer. Glean's CMake support is here.

Similarly for the other languages, you have to invoke the Glean indexer on the source files, but the non-C languages tend to be much simpler because there aren't as many dependencies from the build system.