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Building Libadalang

Setup

To generate and build the library itself, you'll need to go through the following steps:

  • Install the GNAT tools and compiler. You can find Community Editions on AdaCore's website.

  • Build and install the GNATcoll library (core, plus Iconv and GMP bindings). You can find its source release on AdaCore's website or directly on GitHub's repositories for gnatcoll-core and gnatcoll-bindings. Just make sure you checkout the gpl-20** branch corresponding to your GNAT Community release.

  • Install every Python dependency. We recommend creating a virtualenv and installing them inside of it, this way:

    $ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r REQUIREMENTS.dev

To develop comfortably:

  • If you want interactive debugging when code is generated, install IPython.
  • If you want to compute code coverage for the code generator, install coverage.py (see REQUIREMENTS.dev).
  • If you want to check memory issues, the testsuite has an option to track them using Valgrind.

Building the library

First, let's generate code for Libadalang itself. In the top-level directory, run:

$ python ada/manage.py generate

This generates Ada, C and Python source code for Libadalang in the build directory. In order to build this source code into a shared library, run:

$ python ada/manage.py build

Assuming you satisfied all the above dependencies, both commands should successfuly run to completion.

While developing Libadalang you might be happy to use the following command:

$ python ada/manage.py make

It will wrap the two previous commands in one, generating the code and building it in one step.

Install

Once you built Libadalang, you can install the library in any place you want:

$ python ada/manage.py install $INSTALL_DIR

Using Libadalang without installing it

During development, it can be useful to update environment variables so that Libadalang can be used directly after a build, without performing a bona fide installation. The setenv command enables one to do that. Assuming a Bourne-compatible shell, run:

$ eval `python ada/manage.py setenv`

After this, you can both build programs that depend on Libadalang using GPRbuild and run Python interpreter to import the libadalang module.

Static libraries

By default, the ada/manage.py script only deals with shared libraries. This is the most sensible default as using Libadalang's Python bindings requires shared libraries. In order to also build static ones, just insert the --enable-static argument to all commands. For instance:

$  python ada/manage.py --enable-static generate
$  python ada/manage.py --enable-static build
$  python ada/manage.py --enable-static install $INSTALL_DIR

The above will generate, build and then install both the shared libraries and the static ones.

Building the documentation

Libadalang itself is required to build this Sphinx documentation: this allows to automatically generate the Ada API reference from the corresponding Ada source code (conversely for Python). As a consequence, you need either to have Libadalang installed or to update your environment without installing it: see the corresponding section above.

Building this documentation as a set of static HTML pages is as easy as running the following command from the user_manual directory:

$ make html

Assuming successful completion, the documentation is then available in the user_manual/_build/html directory: you can start reading it from the index.html page.

Note that on Mac OS X, security features require you to explicitly pass the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

$ make html LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"