development setup howto

[ferkulat]

Hi there,

I wanted to debug something in codechecker and probably contribute a fix.
I am not a python dev.
But I thought: "Its python. Can not be that hard."

... a few hours later ...

Tried a lot of things until I discovered the Makefile and ran

• make package,
• make venv_dev,
• make pip_dev_deps in different order several times.

Managed to tell pycharm using the created venv_dev

Even make test ran and failed with one failing test. It is still success!

Now debugging venv_dev/bin/CodeChecker and get an exception:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/homedir/PycharmProjects/codechecker/venv_dev/share/codechecker/config/commands.json'

Running python scripts/build/create_commands.py -v -b venv_dev shows nothing and also creates no commands.json.

I feel dumb at that moment.
I would love to have a step by step "How to setup a development environment until I can debug Codechecker for dummies".

Thank you in advance

[SevHub]

Same problem here. I (probably) found a bug in CodeChecker, and would love to fix it, or at least dig deeper. But the only way I can get CodeChecker to run is via the pip installation. And when I change some files in the library the lib/site-packages folder it has no effect, as if these files were ignored... Maybe because on Windows the whole thing runs as a compiled exe?