diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e7226a9ab757ff1597e2f7ddc18ee674f5857229..8724a98d9909edecaeb1412908e8612af956fda9 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ if(NOT CCACHE)
endif()
message(STATUS "Found ccache ${CCACHE}")
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER ${CCACHE} CACHE STRING "ccache executable")
+set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
# Extends cmake module path - so that FindwaLBerla.cmake in the current directory is found
set ( CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} ${your_project_name_SOURCE_DIR} )
diff --git a/apps/example_app_codegen/CMakeLists.txt b/apps/example_app_codegen/CMakeLists.txt
index 435bae3048ac67346599af5ec353b006de851234..60a8c8e23f3a4091240f24994bc475479535bcce 100644
--- a/apps/example_app_codegen/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/apps/example_app_codegen/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ waLBerla_add_executable ( NAME ExampleAppCodegen
FILES ExampleApp.cpp
DEPENDS blockforest core field lbm geometry timeloop gui
LatticeModelGenerated)
-
+target_compile_options(ExampleAppCodegen PRIVATE -mavx2)
diff --git a/apps/example_app_codegen/Readme.md b/apps/example_app_codegen/Readme.md
index 2cf7cfd2c17f6210ce4c79def34f6e630a586a74..228799d588ced3fd95e375a753d2f4dc8a1f7fd1 100644
--- a/apps/example_app_codegen/Readme.md
+++ b/apps/example_app_codegen/Readme.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ VERSION=0.4.4 DEPS="/work/jgrad/walberla_deps" PYTHONPATH="${DEPS}/${VERSION}/lb
Then compile the AVX binary separately with:
```sh
-(cd /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/apps/example_app_codegen && /usr/bin/ccache /usr/bin/clang++ -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB -I/work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/walberla/src -I/work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/walberla/src -I/work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/apps/example_app_codegen/default_codegen -isystem /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/src -isystem /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/src -isystem /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/0.4.4/pystencils/pystencils/include -isystem /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include/openmpi -isystem /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include -Wall -Wconversion -Wshadow -Wno-c++11-extensions -Qunused-arguments -pthread -pthread -g -std=gnu++17 -DWALBERLA_BUILD_WITH_AVX -o CMakeFiles/ExampleAppCodegen.dir/ExampleAppAVX.cpp.o -c /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/apps/example_app_codegen/ExampleApp.cpp)
+(cd /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/apps/example_app_codegen && /usr/bin/ccache /usr/bin/clang++ -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB -I/work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/walberla/src -I/work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/walberla/src -I/work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/apps/example_app_codegen/default_codegen -isystem /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/src -isystem /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/src -isystem /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/0.4.4/pystencils/pystencils/include -isystem /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include/openmpi -isystem /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include -Wall -Wconversion -Wshadow -Wno-c++11-extensions -Qunused-arguments -pthread -pthread -g -std=gnu++17 -DWALBERLA_BUILD_WITH_AVX -mavx2 -o CMakeFiles/ExampleAppCodegen.dir/ExampleAppAVX.cpp.o -c /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/apps/example_app_codegen/ExampleApp.cpp)
(cd /work/jgrad/walberla_deps/devel/example_app/build/apps/example_app_codegen && /tikhome/jgrad/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cmake/data/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/ExampleAppCodegen.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/usr/bin/clang++ -Wall -Wconversion -Wshadow -Wno-c++11-extensions -Qunused-arguments -pthread -pthread -g CMakeFiles/ExampleAppCodegen.dir/ExampleAppAVX.cpp.o -o ExampleAppCodegenAVX -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib ../../walberla/src/blockforest/libblockforest.a ../../walberla/src/core/libcore.a ../../walberla/src/field/libfield.a ../../walberla/src/lbm/liblbm.a ../../walberla/src/geometry/libgeometry.a ../../walberla/src/timeloop/libtimeloop.a ../../walberla/src/gui/libgui.a libLatticeModelGenerated.a ../../walberla/src/domain_decomposition/libdomain_decomposition.a ../../walberla/src/vtk/libvtk.a ../../walberla/src/boundary/libboundary.a ../../walberla/src/blockforest/libblockforest.a ../../walberla/src/core/libcore.a ../../walberla/src/field/libfield.a ../../walberla/src/lbm/liblbm.a ../../walberla/src/geometry/libgeometry.a ../../walberla/src/timeloop/libtimeloop.a ../../walberla/src/gui/libgui.a libLatticeModelGenerated.a ../../walberla/src/domain_decomposition/libdomain_decomposition.a ../../walberla/src/vtk/libvtk.a ../../walberla/src/boundary/libboundary.a ../../walberla/src/blockforest/libblockforest.a ../../walberla/src/core/libcore.a ../../walberla/src/field/libfield.a ../../walberla/src/lbm/liblbm.a ../../walberla/src/geometry/libgeometry.a ../../walberla/src/timeloop/libtimeloop.a ../../walberla/src/gui/libgui.a libLatticeModelGenerated.a ../../walberla/src/domain_decomposition/libdomain_decomposition.a ../../walberla/src/vtk/libvtk.a ../../walberla/src/boundary/libboundary.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib/libmpi.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib/libmpi_cxx.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib/libmpi.so /usr/lib/libpfft.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfftw3.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfftw3_mpi.so ../../walberla/extern/lodepng/liblodepng.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi/lib/libmpi_cxx.so /usr/lib/libpfft.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfftw3.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfftw3_mpi.so)
```