Developer Tips

libsonata is a standard CMake project, so building it looks something like:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..                              \
    -GNinja                             \
    -DEXTLIB_FROM_SUBMODULES=ON         \
    -DSONATA_PYTHON=ON                  \
    -DSONATA_CXX_WARNINGS=ON            \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

For faster iteration when working on python bindings, one can use:

$ pip install --no-build-isolation -Ceditable.rebuild=true -Cbuild-dir=build -ve ~/src/libsonata

This will rebuild only the files that have changed. See scikit-build-core Editable installs. This assumes that the build dependencies are already installed in the python environment. Currently, setuptools_scm and scikit-build-core are required.