Unable to get compile directory working

[manavkush]

Hi all, I discovered this plugin yesterday and I'm amazed at the level of customization and documentation.

So I tried setting the plugin in my neovim config. Using the default configuration, it worked as expected. But I wanted a cleaner directory structure with the executable files in a seperate folder as well as the testcases.

So the basic folder structure that I desired was:

-> File.cpp
-> testcases 
        | -> Testcase files (input & output)
-> bin
        | -> Executables

For this I specified the following:

 testcases_directory = './testcases',
 compile_directory = '.',
 running_directory = './bin',
 compile_command = {
        cpp = { exec = "g++", "$(FNAME)", "-o", "./bin/$(FNOEXT)"}
 },

But the CompetiTest run gave an error.

Error executing luv callback: vim/_editor.lua:0: E5560: nvim_err_writeln must not be called in a lua loop callback stack traceback: [C]: in function 'nvim_err_writeln' vim/_editor.lua: in function 'notify' ...are/nvim/lazy/competitest.nvim/lua/competitest/utils.lua:8: in function 'notify' ...re/nvim/lazy/competitest.nvim/lua/competitest/runner.lua:205: in function 'execute_testcase' ...re/nvim/lazy/competitest.nvim/lua/competitest/runner.lua:128: in function 'run_first_testcases' ...re/nvim/lazy/competitest.nvim/lua/competitest/runner.lua:138: in function 'callback' ...re/nvim/lazy/competitest.nvim/lua/competitest/runner.lua:201: in function <...re/nvim/lazy/competitest.nvim/lua/competitest/runner.lua:167>

I also tried another way.

 testcases_directory = './testcases',
 compile_directory = './bin',
 running_directory = './bin',
 compile_command = {
        cpp = { exec = "g++", "../$(FNAME)", "-o", "./$(FNOEXT)"}
 },

which resulted in compilation error:

cc1plus: fatal error: B. Friendly Arrays.cpp: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Could anyone give any details on how to use the mentioned options or any of the corresponding commands(like compile_command) ?

Thanks

[xeluxee]

I discovered this plugin yesterday and I'm amazed at the level of customization and documentation.

Thanks!

-> testcases 
      | -> Testcase files (input & output)

Have you considered using single file instead of a folder?

Anyway the config you're looking for is the following:

testcases_directory = 'testcases',
compile_directory = 'bin',
running_directory = 'bin',
compile_command = {
    c = { exec = 'gcc', args = { '$(FABSPATH)', '-o', '$(FNOEXT)' } },
    cpp = { exec = 'g++', args = { '$(FABSPATH)', '-o', '$(FNOEXT)' } },
},

Please mind that compile_command requires two argument for each language, exec and args, otherwise unexpected errors like this could happen.

[manavkush]

Yes, the compile command needed args which I didn't provide. Thank you!!!