How to make ALE to work with mixed Windows/Cygwin and tricore-gcc?

[ubaldot]

I am running on Windows 10, working with gvim but the overall project is built in Cygwin. The compiler that I am using is tricore-gcc. With lot of pain I managed to build a compile_commands.json file that apparently is working fine (if I use a linter that cannot parse compile_commands.json I immediately have an error on the first #include whereas if I use e.g. clangtidy such an error disappear).

Nevertheless, I tried to mess around with a .c file by removing some ; or } to check if the linter is working, but nothing happens.

I tried to debug a bit by running the commands displayed in ALEInfo from both the Powershell and Cygwin, but I got the following error:

C:\> clang-tidy C:\Project1\Root\software\ComponentONE\src\fileA.c -p C:\Project1\Root
Skipping C:\Project1\Root\software\ComponentONE\src\fileA.c. Compile command not found.

I also tried to adjust the compile_commands.json by changing / with \ (the same for the commands run from the Powershell), I tried to replace tricore-gcc with gcc, etc. but I always got the same error as above.

If I just run

C:\>clang-tidy.exe
clang-tidy.exe: Not enough positional command line arguments specified!
Must specify at least 1 positional arguments: See: C:\Program Files (x86)\LLVM\bin\clang-tidy.exe -help

which means that clang-tidy is recognized.

Finally, if I run the real compiler command:

C:\> tricore-gcc.exe (various flags) C:\Project1\Root\software\ComponentONE\src\fileA.c

from both Powershell or Cygwin I don't get any error.

It follows my ALEInfo

 Current Filetype: c
Available Linters: ['cc', 'ccls', 'clangd', 'clangtidy', 'cppcheck', 'cquery', 'flawfinder']
   Linter Aliases:
'cc' -> ['gcc', 'clang']
  Enabled Linters: ['clangtidy']
  Ignored Linters: []
 Suggested Fixers: 
  'astyle' - Fix C/C++ with astyle.
  'clang-format' - Fix C/C++ and cuda files with clang-format.
  'clangtidy' - Fix C/C++ and ObjectiveC files with clang-tidy.
  'remove_trailing_lines' - Remove all blank lines at the end of a file.
  'trim_whitespace' - Remove all trailing whitespace characters at the end of every line.
  'uncrustify' - Fix C, C++, C#, ObjectiveC, ObjectiveC++, D, Java, Pawn, and VALA files with uncrustify.
 Linter Variables:

let g:ale_c_always_make = 0
let g:ale_c_build_dir = ''
let g:ale_c_build_dir_names = ['build', 'bin']
let g:ale_c_clangtidy_checks = []
let g:ale_c_clangtidy_executable = 'clang-tidy'
let g:ale_c_clangtidy_extra_options = ''
let g:ale_c_clangtidy_options = ''
let g:ale_c_parse_compile_commands = 1
let g:ale_c_parse_makefile = 0
 Global Variables:

let g:ale_cache_executable_check_failures = v:null
let g:ale_change_sign_column_color = 0
let g:ale_command_wrapper = ''
let g:ale_completion_delay = 100
let g:ale_completion_enabled = 0
let g:ale_completion_max_suggestions = 50
let g:ale_disable_lsp = 0
let g:ale_echo_cursor = 1
let g:ale_echo_msg_error_str = 'Error'
let g:ale_echo_msg_format = '%code: %%s'
let g:ale_echo_msg_info_str = 'Info'
let g:ale_echo_msg_warning_str = 'Warning'
let g:ale_enabled = 1
let g:ale_fix_on_save = 0
let g:ale_fixers = {'c': ['clangtidy'], '*': ['remove_trailing_lines', 'trim_whitespace']}
let g:ale_history_enabled = 1
let g:ale_history_log_output = 1
let g:ale_keep_list_window_open = 0
let g:ale_lint_delay = 200
let g:ale_lint_on_enter = 1
let g:ale_lint_on_filetype_changed = 1
let g:ale_lint_on_insert_leave = 1
let g:ale_lint_on_save = 1
let g:ale_lint_on_text_changed = 'normal'
let g:ale_linter_aliases = {}
let g:ale_linters = {'c': ['clangtidy']}
let g:ale_linters_explicit = 0
let g:ale_linters_ignore = {}
let g:ale_list_vertical = 0
let g:ale_list_window_size = 10
let g:ale_loclist_msg_format = '%code: %%s'
let g:ale_max_buffer_history_size = 20
let g:ale_max_signs = -1
let g:ale_maximum_file_size = v:null
let g:ale_open_list = 0
let g:ale_pattern_options = v:null
let g:ale_pattern_options_enabled = v:null
let g:ale_root = {}
let g:ale_set_balloons = 0
let g:ale_set_highlights = 1
let g:ale_set_loclist = 1
let g:ale_set_quickfix = 0
let g:ale_set_signs = 1
let g:ale_sign_column_always = 0
let g:ale_sign_error = '>>'
let g:ale_sign_info = '--'
let g:ale_sign_offset = 1000000
let g:ale_sign_style_error = '>>'
let g:ale_sign_style_warning = '--'
let g:ale_sign_warning = '--'
let g:ale_sign_highlight_linenrs = 0
let g:ale_statusline_format = v:null
let g:ale_type_map = {}
let g:ale_use_global_executables = v:null
let g:ale_virtualtext_cursor = 0
let g:ale_warn_about_trailing_blank_lines = 1
let g:ale_warn_about_trailing_whitespace = 1
  Command History:
(executable check - success) clang-tidy
(finished - exit code 0) 'cmd /s/c "clang-tidy C:\Project1\Root\software\ComponentONE\src\fileA.c -p C:\Project1\Root"'
<<<NO OUTPUT RETURNED>>>

and my _vimrc

let g:ale_linters = {
\ 'c': ['clangtidy'],
\}
let g:ale_fixers = ['clangtidy']
let g:ale_fixers={
\   'c': ['clangtidy'],
\   '*': ['remove_trailing_lines', 'trim_whitespace'],
\}

and one extract of my compile_commands.json file:

{
  "directory": ".",
  "command": "c:/Hightec/tricore/v4.6.6.1/bin/tricore-gcc.exe (number of flags) -c software/ComponentONE/src/fileA.c",
  "file": "software/ComponentONE/src/fileA.c"
},

If I run pwd from vim I have C:\Project1\Root

[ubaldot]

FIXED!

I had to change the compile_commands.json file in this way:

{
  "directory": "C:/Project1/Root",
  "command": "c:/Hightec/tricore/v4.6.6.1/bin/tricore-gcc.exe (number of flags) -c software/ComponentONE/src/fileA.c",
  "file": "software/ComponentONE/src/fileA.c"
},

or in this way

{
  "directory": ".",
  "command": "c:/Hightec/tricore/v4.6.6.1/bin/tricore-gcc.exe (number of flags) -c software/ComponentONE/src/fileA.c",
  "file": "C:/Project1/Root/software/ComponentONE/src/fileA.c"
},

to make it to work.
Obviously now there are other issues such as

error: unknown argument: '-fstrict-volatile-bitfields' [clang-diagnostic-error]

but this because the option -fstrict-volatile-bitfields exists for gcc but for clang.
I would say problem solved.