Intellij: Clion plugin doesn't work with custom CROSSTOOL

[ghost]

I configured a custom CROSSTOOL for clang on ubuntu 18.04. I was able to build my workspace by setting --crosstool_top=//bazel/tools/cpp:toolchain --cpu=k8 --compiler=clang

and I added
build --crosstool_top=//bazel/tools/cpp:toolchain --cpu=k8 --compiler=clang
to .bazelrc, which works well in command line. But CLion fails to sync build file.

Got the following error
"intellij_aspect/intellij_info_impl.bzl", line 365, in collect_c_toolchain_info

cc_common.configure_features(cc_toolchain = cpp_toolchain, requ..., ...))

expected value of type 'CcToolchainInfo' for parameter 'cc_toolchain', in method call configure_features(ToolchainInfo cc_toolchain, list requested_features, list unsupported_features) of 'cc_common'.

[RNabel]

Are you on the newest version of Clion, Bazel, and the Bazel plugin? I saw this error recently when building with Bazel 0.21.0 on an outdated Bazel plugin version.

[ghost]

Let me update bazel and clion then report back.

[ghost]

CLion bazel plugin 2018.12.03.0.2
CLion 2018.2.7
bazel 0.21.0

[mattofak]

FWIW, I just compiled the plugin from current master (0f45ef4c3bdc931c3c92df0fb3f75fdb53347b32) and had the same issue.

[kevin-nuro]

Also saw this on Bazel 0.24.1.

It seems that this line is returning an instance of ToolchainInfo instead of CcToolchainInfo:
https://github.com/bazelbuild/intellij/blob/f3399ff15516fa93f0df490c6d0649c6e32a60e1/aspect/intellij_info_impl.bzl#L435-L436

[speedskater]

I just stumbled across this issue with bazel 0.29 and the latest version of the clion bazel plugin using a custom c++ toolchain.

Thanks @kevin-nuro for pointing me in the right direction for a workaround.

A workaround is to define tags = ["no-ide"] on targets created with the cc_toolchain rule. Using this workaround the plugin picks up the CCToolchainInfo from your defined cc_toolchain_suite and everything works as expected.