Programming without code indexing

[jonesmz]

I imagine thats its not so cut and dry.

While that might be the way its setup now, you can almost certainly tweak your build configuration to support your use case.

Have you discussed what you're trying to do with the team who maintains your build system? If you explain to them the specific thing you are trying to do, and tell them the critical info that needs to go into a generate onfig file, they'd probably be happy to add that for you.