16.5.21 Toolchains customization

The list of toolchains and their values presented in the project editor (see The Project Wizard) can be customized through XML. The GPS default list is contained in toolchains.xml. You can add your own toolchain by providing an xml description following the below described structure:

<toolchain_default>

Contains the default names for the different tools used by all toolchains. The final name used will be toolchain_name-default_name.

<toolchain name="name">

Defines a toolchain using name "name". This toolchain can override the default values defined in the toolchain_default above.

Each of the above tags can have the following chilren

<gnat_driver>

Defines the gnat driver to use.

<gnat_list>

Defines the gnat list tool to use.

<debugger>

Defines the debugger to use.

<cpp_filt>

Not used by GPS.

<compiler lang="lang">

Defines the compiler to use to compile language "lang"

The toolchain_default values can either be overriden or nullified by just providing the same tab with an empty value in a toolchain definition.