Developing

Development for cheddar is described in detail on the docs. But first, to clone the cheddar repository, use the following:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/cheddar-lang/Cheddar.git

Additionally, when syncinc your branch with the latest update to develop, use the following command to avoid merge commmits:

$ git rebase develop -X theirs

Once your changes are ready to merge, submit a PR to the develop branch where it'll be reviewed and then merged if applicable

Manual Installation

Manual installation is simple. The only dependencies you must have are git and nodejs + npm. Additionally you should have make (preferably GNU), but this comes by default on almost every *nix system.

• First, refer to the "Development" section for cloning the Cheddar repository.

• The next step is to install the dependencies with npm. An automatic build should trigger if dependencies are installed succesfully. Once this command is finished you should see a dist/ directory created. If you don't, look for any errors in the installation.

$ npm install

• Manually building / testing

You can use make to run the build, test, and install tasks:

$ make         # Production Build
$ make build   # Development Build
$ make test    # Run tests

• Installing.

If you want to install the Cheddar CLI, you have some options. If you are doing a production installation, use make install. For all other cases use ./bin/install; with this you can pass a --method argument to specify whether you'd like to install for yourself (--method=alias) or for everyone on your computer (--method=path, the default) which may require elevated privileges. With --method=alias, provide the location of your bashrc file or equivalent with the --rcloc flag (usually for *nix systems this is ~/.bashrc, and for Mac this is ~/.bash_profile). You may specify the installation path with --method=path, Cheddar installs the binary in <path>/bin/cheddar and <path>/share/cheddar; this defaults to /usr/local.