Can't find referenced headers

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, csharp
Domain
compilers, tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the report with Headers.Add, synthizer.h, synthizer_constants.h, and the listed generator settings. Trace how referenced headers are processed while libraries are found, then verify that the referenced headers are resolved and generated code is produced.

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Description

Brief Description

When adding headers via Headers.Add, the headers referenced can't be found, but libraries are found just fine.

OS: NixOS 22.05, kernel v. 5.18.17

Used headers

synthizer.h and synthizer_constants.h.

Used settings

Target: GCC/Clang

Other settings

        options.OutputDir = "Synthizer";
        options.GeneratorKind = GeneratorKind.CSharp;
        options.Verbose = true;
        options.CompileCode = true;
        options.CheckSymbols = true;
        options.OutputInteropIncludes = true;
        options.GenerateFunctionTemplates = true;
        options.GenerateClassTemplates = true;
        options.GenerateInternalImports = true;
        options.GenerateSequentialLayout = true;
        options.UseHeaderDirectories = true;
        options.GenerateObjectOverrides = true;
        options.GenerateFinalizers = true;
        options.MarshalCharAsManagedChar = true;
        options.GenerateExternalDataFields = true;
        options.IncludePrefix = ".";
Stack trace or incompilable generated code

None generated.

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