Add includes2strings.py: Convenience script to extract required include paths for VS Code from the generated Makefile

includes2strings.py

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+#!/bin/env python
+import sys
+
+def mkline(path):
+    return ('"' + path + '",')
+
+
+def find_paths(line):
+    ret = []
+
+    while line.find("-I") >= 0:
+
+        # find the index of the next "-I" if there is one
+        idx = line.find("-I")
+        idx += 2
+        line = line[idx:]
+
+        # find the index of the next blank
+        idx = line.find(" ")
+        if idx >= 0:
+            # append to the return-list the string
+            # delimited by the blank
+            ret.append(line[:idx])
+            line = line[idx:]
+        else:
+            # if there is no blank until the end of line:
+            # just use the rest of the line
+            ret.append(line)
+            break
+
+    return ret
+
+
+# read from stdin until EOF occurs
+lines = sys.stdin.read().split("\n")
+
+# filter empty lines
+lines = [line for line in lines if len(line) > 0]
+
+include_paths = []
+for read_line in lines:
+    # convert the read lines to paths and convert them to quoted strings
+    paths = [mkline(p) for p in find_paths(read_line) if p not in ["", "."]]
+    for path in paths:
+
+        # if we don't have a duplicate... add the path
+        if path not in include_paths:
+            include_paths.append(path)
+
+include_paths.sort()
+if include_paths:
+    # if we have at least one element: remove the trailing comma from the last element
+    tmp = include_paths[:-1]
+    last = include_paths[-1][:-1]
+    tmp.append(last)
+    include_paths = tmp
+
+for path in include_paths:
+    print(path)