Ideas List for GSoC 2025

Below is a curated list of project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2025. These projects aim to enhance Xmake's capabilities and address key challenges in C/C++ development. Prospective contributors are encouraged to explore these ideas and propose their solutions.

Project Ideas

1. Xmake Language Server

Develop a language server for Xmake(xmake.lua configuration) to provide advanced IDE features like code completion, diagnostics, and documentation hints, improving the developer experience.

2. Support .NET project on Windows

see #6057

3. Native XCode project generator plugin

Generate xcode project file.

xmake project -k xcode

The current version of xmake does not support XCode project generation directly, it generates XCode project files by translating xmake scripts to CMake scripts. We want a native XCode project generator that generates XCode project files directly from xmake.lua project scripts.

see #4810

4. Improve xmake-idea plugin to support source code debugging

Plugin source code: https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-idea

5. Improve xmake pack to support for AppImage

xmake pack -f appimage

6. Support for buildig IDL files (com)

• #5675
• https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4837/Introduction-to-RPC-Part-1

7. Improve xmake documents

Migrate https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-docs documentation to https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake-gendoc

How to Contribute

If you're interested in any of these ideas or have your own proposal, feel free to reach out to us on GitHub Discussions or join our Community chat.

We look forward to your innovative ideas and contributions!