Contributing to Kobalt
+Interested in contributing to Kobalt? This page explains how to configure your development environment.
+ +Launch configuration
+ ++ Kobalt's main class is `com.beust.kobalt.MainKt`. Here is a typical launch configuration: +
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+ A few observations: +
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- You can ask Kobalt to build external projects by specifying a non-empty "Working Directory". +
- The default log level is 1. 2 is useful for debugging and 3 will be extremely verbose. +
- Another command line parameter worth of notice is
--dev, which will add the class + name and thread information to each log line.
+ - Checking the "Single instance" box is useful to avoid duplicating these launch configurations. +
Auto complete in build files
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+ It's useful to turn on auto completion for your Build.kt file if you are adding new
+ elements to the DSL. You can achieve this in two steps.
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Sync your build file
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+ This is achieved with the Kobalt / Sync build file menu item. On top of configuring your
+ IDEA project with the correct dependencies, this will also add the kobalt.jar file to your
+ classpath.
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Compile your build file
++ Next, mark the directory that contains your build file as a "Source directory": +
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Alternate source directory for Build.kt
+ The default location for Build.kt is in the root directory of your project but
+ you can also put it in kobalt/src/Build.kt and then mark that directory as
+ a source directory.
+ + You can now use all the IDEA features on your build file: +
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