This section describes how to build EdgeDB locally, how to use its internal tools, and how to contribute to it.
The following instructions should be used to create a “dev” build on Linux or macOS. Windows is not currently supported.
GNU make version 3.80 or newer;
C compiler (GCC or clang);
Rust compiler and Cargo 1.45 or later;
autotools;
Python 3.9 dev package;
Bison 1.875 or later;
Flex 2.5.31 or later;
Perl 5.8.3 or later;
Zlib (zlibg1-dev on Ubuntu);
Readline dev package;
Libuuid dev package.
The easiest way to set up a development environment is to create a Python “venv” with all dependencies and commands installed into it.
Make a new directory that will contain checkouts of edgedb and edgedb-python. The name of the directory is arbitrary, we will use “dev” in this guide:
$
mkdir ~/dev
$
cd ~/dev
Clone the edgedb repository:
$
https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb.git
Create a Python 3.9 virtual environment and activate it:
$
python3.9 -m venv edgedb-dev
$
source edgedb-dev/bin/activate
Build edgedb (the build will take a while):
$
cd ../edgedb
$
pip install -v -e ".[test]"
In addition to compiling EdgeDB and all dependencies, this will also
install the edb
and edgedb
command line tools into the current
Python virtual environment.
It will also install libraries used during development.
Run tests:
$
edb test
The new virtual environment is now ready for development and can be activated at any time.
To run all EdgeDB tests simply use the $ edb test
command without
arguments.
The command also supports running a few selected tests. To run all tests in a test case file:
$
edb test tests/test_edgeql_calls.py
# or run two files:
$
edb test tests/test_edgeql_calls.py tests/test_edgeql_for.py
To pattern-match a test by its name:
$
edb test -k test_edgeql_calls_01
# or run all tests that contain "test_edgeql_calls":
$
edb test -k test_edgeql_calls
See $ edb test --help
for more options.