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:
A few observations:
- 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
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.
Sync your build file
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.
Compile your build file
Next, mark the directory that contains your build file as a "Source directory":
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:
