CLion custom compiler: Makefile parser says "No compilation commands found" - macos

Question

I'm trying to get a custom compiler working in CLion and having a bear of a time. Can anyone help me find out what I'm doing wrong? I have the full code on Github.
What I have
The command line tools are all behind the same executable named mpw. So the C compiler is behind mpw SC, the linker is behind mpw link. There's also a tool named Rez to add some metadata to the executable, but I'm fine if CLion just ignores that.
I'm using a make file to do the actual build.
I've created a custom compiler definition YAML and selected it in CLion's project settings. I tried to follow the Jetbrains docs [1] [2] but couldn't find out what code insight target name to use (It eventually compiles for 68000 CPU, old MacOS, anyone know where I can find a list of allowed clangd target names?).
The Makefile works when I call make clean or make all from command line.
Problem
When I open the folder in CLion, it tries to parse the Makefile and reports:
(x) Analysing makefile
(x) No compilation commands found
Goal
Get CLion to see all my code (including system headers at ~/mpw/Interfaces/CIncludes) so I can use its code navigation to auto-complete code. Refactoring would be nice too.
Get CLion to understand my Makefile so I can build using the "hammer" icon inside CLion.
Custom Compiler Definition
compilers:
- description: "MPW SC"
match-sources: ".*\\.c"
match-language: "C"
match-compiler-exe: "(.*/)?mpw SC"
code-insight-target-name: mpw
include-dirs:
- ${user-home}/mpw/Interfaces/CIncludes
defines-text: "
#define __MRC__ 0x0700
#define OLDROUTINENAMES 1
"
Makefile
SOURCES=SillyBalls.c
RFILES=SillyBalls.r Size.r
EXECUTABLE=SillyBalls
MPW=~/Programming/mpw/build/bin/mpw
RINCLUDES=~/mpw/Interfaces/RIncludes
LDFLAGS =-w -c 'SILB' -t APPL \
-sn STDIO=Main -sn INTENV=Main -sn %A5Init=Main
LIBRARIES={Libraries}Stubs.o \
{Libraries}MacRuntime.o \
{Libraries}IntEnv.o \
{Libraries}Interface.o \
{Libraries}ToolLibs.o \
{CLibraries}StdCLib.o
TOOLBOXFLAGS=-d OLDROUTINENAMES=1 -typecheck relaxed
OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:%.c=obj/%.o)
all: prepass bin/$(EXECUTABLE)
prepass:
mkdir -p obj bin
bin/$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJECTS)
$(MPW) link $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBRARIES) -o $#
Rez -rd $(RFILES) -o $# -i $(RINCLUDES) -append
obj/%.o : %.c
$(MPW) SC $(TOOLBOXFLAGS) $< -o $#
clean:
rm -rf bin obj

Answer 1

Thanks to #JohnBollinger for getting me on the right track:
CLion is apparently not smart enough to recognize $(MPW) SC as mpw SC. If I change it to
CC="~/Programming/mpw/build/bin/mpw SC"
CLion is happy, but of course there is no file named mpw SC.
So my solution was to create a shell script sc.sh:
#!/bin/zsh
~/Programming/mpw/build/bin/mpw SC $#
and then set
CC=./sc.sh
and
match-compiler-exe: "(.*/)?sc.sh"
and then use ./sc.sh everywhere where I used to have $(MPW) SC
CLion recognizes it, starts indexing the system headers, and the "hammer" icon triggers a build all just as desired.