'Ctags Can't tag SDL/SDL2 functions

Using Ctag to jump to function decleration. Works fine for everything but not with SDL functions.

I used ctags -R . command to generate the tagfile in /usr/include/ file to generate tag file. And added set tags+=/usr/include/tags to .vimrc file so that vim can find and use it.

Which works fine for everything else and SDL struct and definde but can't find any function.

Like SDL2/SDL_render.h file there are a lot of struct and function but in the tag file there are only found the structure's and function's. see the ctag generated tag here

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So, How to solve this?

sdlsdl-2ctagsuniversal-ctags


Solution 1:[1]

seems the command ctags -R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extras=+q . running in /usr/include/ folder fixed the issue.

Solution 2:[2]

As Noman wrote, --c++-kinds=+p is needed. In addition, you may need to pass -I DECLSPEC -I SDLCALL

As far as reading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LuaDist/sdl/master/include/SDL_render.h, macros that ctags doesn't know how to handle it are used in the header file. The options (-I) are the hints for ctags.

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Solution Source
Solution 1 Noman
Solution 2 Masatake YAMATO

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