Clangd complains for Unknown argument: '-arch arm64' [drv_unknown_argument]

[vcargats]

Running this to create compile_commands.json:

node-gyp -- configure -f=gyp.generator.compile_commands_json.py

clangd complains for Unknown argument: '-arch arm64' [drv_unknown_argument]

The reason is that this c flag: "-arch arm64" is quoted in the generated compile_commands.json (as specified in common.py as it contains space). Clang compiler expects two separate argvs elements, not just single element quoted.
The possible solution to this is not to apply gyp.common.EncodePOSIXShellList function for c/cc flags in gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/compile_commands_json.py. I guess that should be fine, do we ever need to quote/escape compiler flags?

• Node Version: v20.0.0
• Platform: Darwin THEUSER-M-FHVK 22.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.4.0: Mon Mar 6 20:59:28 PST 2023; root:xnu-8796.101.5~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
• Compiler:

Apple clang version 14.0.3 (clang-1403.0.22.14.1)
Target: arm64-apple-darwin22.4.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

• Module: node-gyp -- configure -f=gyp.generator.compile_commands_json.py

Verbose output (from npm or node-gyp):

THEUSER-M-FHVK:node-binding theuser$ node-gyp -- configure -f=gyp.generator.compile_commands_json.py
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@9.3.1
gyp info using node@20.2.0 | darwin | arm64
gyp info find Python using Python version 3.11.3 found at "/opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.11/bin/python3.11"
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.2.0/node-v20.2.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.2.0/node-v20.2.0-headers.tar.gz
gyp http GET https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.2.0/SHASUMS256.txt
gyp http 200 https://nodejs.org/download/release/v20.2.0/SHASUMS256.txt
gyp info spawn /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.11/bin/python3.11
gyp info spawn args [
gyp info spawn args   '/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py',
gyp info spawn args   'binding.gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-f=gyp.generator.compile_commands_json.py',
gyp info spawn args   '-f',
gyp info spawn args   'make',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/Users/theuser/Documents/node-binding/build/config.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/include/node/common.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dvisibility=default',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_root_dir=/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_gyp_dir=/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/node-gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_lib_file=/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/<(target_arch)/node.lib',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dmodule_root_dir=/Users/theuser/Documents/node-binding',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_engine=v8',
gyp info spawn args   '--depth=.',
gyp info spawn args   '--no-parallel',
gyp info spawn args   '--generator-output',
gyp info spawn args   'build',
gyp info spawn args   '-Goutput_dir=.'
gyp info spawn args ]
gyp info ok

This is the file generated:

THEUSER-M-FHVK:node-binding theuser$ cat Release/compile_commands.json
[
{
"command": "c++ \"-DNODE_GYP_MODULE_NAME=greet\" \"-DUSING_UV_SHARED=1\" \"-DUSING_V8_SHARED=1\" \"-DV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS=1\" -DV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS -DV8_IMMINENT_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS \"-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1\" \"-D_DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE=1\" -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE \"-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64\" -DNAPI_DISABLE_CPP_EXCEPTIONS -DBUILDING_NODE_EXTENSION -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/include/node -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/src -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/openssl/config -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/openssl/openssl/include -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/uv/include -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/zlib -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/v8/include -I/Users/theuser/Documents/node-binding/node_modules/node-addon-api -O3 -gdwarf-2 -flto \"-mmacosx-version-min=10.15\" \"-arch arm64\" -Wall -Wendif-labels -W -Wno-unused-parameter \"-std=gnu++17\" \"-stdlib=libc++\" -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-strict-aliasing -c /Users/theuser/Documents/node-binding/src/fb.cpp",
"directory": ".",
"file": "/Users/theuser/Documents/node-binding/src/fb.cpp"
},
{
"command": "c++ \"-DNODE_GYP_MODULE_NAME=greet\" \"-DUSING_UV_SHARED=1\" \"-DUSING_V8_SHARED=1\" \"-DV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS=1\" -DV8_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS -DV8_IMMINENT_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS \"-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1\" \"-D_DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE=1\" -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE \"-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64\" -DNAPI_DISABLE_CPP_EXCEPTIONS -DBUILDING_NODE_EXTENSION -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/include/node -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/src -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/openssl/config -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/openssl/openssl/include -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/uv/include -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/zlib -I/Users/theuser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/20.2.0/deps/v8/include -I/Users/theuser/Documents/node-binding/node_modules/node-addon-api -O3 -gdwarf-2 -flto \"-mmacosx-version-min=10.15\" \"-arch arm64\" -Wall -Wendif-labels -W -Wno-unused-parameter \"-std=gnu++17\" \"-stdlib=libc++\" -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-strict-aliasing -c /Users/theuser/Documents/node-binding/src/index.cpp",
"directory": ".",
"file": "/Users/theuser/Documents/node-binding/src/index.cpp"
}
]

[XadillaX]

I met the same error too.

[mohd-akram]

It seems this was added to node-gyp in #3039. Hope we can get a new release soon.

[cclauss]

Should this be minus-minus-arch?

- -arch arm64
+ --arch arm64