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hackwaly / ocamlearlybird

OCaml debug adapter
MIT License
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Usage without opam #63

Closed eberejustin closed 4 months ago

eberejustin commented 4 months ago

I can't get this to work when I build the executable from sources. Vs code can't find the executable and there doesn't seem to be a setting to point it to a specific path.

Any way to get around this?

sim642 commented 4 months ago

dune install should be able to install the built files into the right places in your current OCaml paths to make ocamlearlybird available in PATH. Then VSCode should also be able to launch it.

eberejustin commented 4 months ago

it's technically installed. I can run ocamlearlybird on terminal so it's in my system paths. Is there an environment variable i need to set? Or better still something like ocamlearlybird.path that i can add to my vscode settings.json

sim642 commented 4 months ago

Which terminal? Your system terminal emulator or VSCode terminal? Maybe VSCode isn't being run with the same environment? Does VSCode OCaml Platform extension detect your OCaml setup as a sandbox?

There isn't one option to hard-code a path because most people use opam and local opam switches (as opposed to one global OCaml installation) to manage dependencies on a per-project basis. Since different opam switches may have different OCaml versions, they also need different builds of earlybird.

It would be possible to add an override option to VSCode OCaml Platform, which is what needs to find ocamlearlybird from VSCode. But I think it wouldn't be a solution to the root problem, rather just a workaround to cover up the issue.