We decided to adopt a docker to have a standardized development platform. If you are not familiar with it, you can find good tutorials in the Docker Documentation. In the case you are a Mac Os X or a Windows user you will need some extra step to create a virtual machine where docker containers will run. All the additional steps are well described in the Docker Documentation, so please refer to that.
The first step to build the development environment is to build its docker image running the following command from the project root directory.
docker build --rm -q -t graph-algorithms .Our development container is based on the fedora:latest container. The container uses systemd and it starts a ssh daemon so that you can connect to it once the container is running. After creation the development container has to users root and user. The password is equal to the user name for both.
The following command run the container and mount the source code directory inside the user home directory. It also binds the host port 4022 to the port 22 of the container.
docker run -d -v $(pwd):/home/user/graph-algorithms:Z -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro -p 4022:22 graph-algorithmsOnce the container is running you only need to ssh to localhost at port 4022 to compile and run the code while you can still make changes from your favorite editor on the host.
Once you are connected to the development container, you can build the project from running the following commands from the graph-algorithms directory in the user home directory of development container.
waf configure
waf buildPlease note that the configure line is needed only the first time or eventually when you need to reconfigure.