3 Clangd uses a global index for project-wide code completion, navigation and
4 other features. For large projects, building this can take many hours and
5 keeping it loaded uses a lot of memory.
7 To relieve that burden, we're building remote index — a global index
8 served on a different machine and shared between developers. This directory
9 contains code that is used as Proof of Concept for the upcoming remote index
14 This feature uses gRPC and Protobuf libraries, so you will need to install them.
15 There are two ways of doing that.
17 However you install dependencies, to enable this feature and build remote index
18 tools you will need to set this CMake flag — `-DCLANGD_ENABLE_REMOTE=On`.
20 ### System-installed libraries
22 On Debian-like systems gRPC and Protobuf can be installed from apt:
25 apt install libgrpc++-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler-grpc
28 ### Building from sources
30 Another way of installing gRPC and Protobuf is building from sources using
31 CMake (we need CMake config files to find necessary libraries in LLVM). The
32 easiest way of doing that would be to choose a directory where you want to
33 install so that the installation files are not copied to system root and you
34 can easily uninstall gRPC or use different versions.
38 $ git clone -b v1.36.3 https://github.com/grpc/grpc
40 $ git submodule update --init
41 # Choose directory where you want gRPC installation to live.
42 $ export GRPC_INSTALL_PATH=/where/you/want/grpc/to/be/installed
43 # Build and install gRPC to ${GRPC_INSTALL_PATH}
44 $ mkdir build; cd build
45 $ cmake -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${GRPC_INSTALL_PATH} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
49 This [guide](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/BUILDING.md) goes into
50 more detail on how to build gRPC from sources.
52 By default, CMake will look for system-installed libraries when building remote
53 index tools so you will have to adjust LLVM's CMake invocation. The following
54 flag will inform build system that you chose this option —
55 `-DGRPC_INSTALL_PATH=${GRPC_INSTALL_PATH}`.
59 You can run `clangd-index-server` and connect `clangd` instance to it using
60 `--remote-index-address` and `--project-root` flags.