Settings View Source Anki Build Notes

These notes are based on dev work/experimentation that I did on 2021-12-12. Note that this development work was all done on a Mac. See this page from the Anki documentation for their description of the Anki build process.

build-steps-for-anki

Build Steps for Anki

  git clone git@github.com:ankitects/anki.git
  cd anki
  brew unlink bazel   # conflicts with bazelisk
  brew install bazelisk

To build and launch Anki (this takes a while):

  ./run

running-anki-tests

Running Anki Tests

To run tests in a directory:

  cd pylib/tests
  bazel test //...

To run a specific test, e.g., test_schedv2 (the main Anki scheduling test):

  cd anki
  PYTEST=test_schedv2 bazel run //pylib:pytest

debugging-anki-code

Debugging Anki Code

To print out an object from Python:

  from pprint import pprint

  pprint(vars(my_object))