Getting Started

Getting the code, a developer shell, & building the CLI

Tvix can be built with the Rust standard cargo build. A Nix shell is provided with the correctly-versioned tooling to build.

TVL monorepo

$ git clone https://code.tvl.fyi/depot.git
$ cd depot

Direnv is highly recommended in order to enable mg, a tool for workflows in monorepos. Follow the Direnv installation instructions, then after it’s set up continue with:

$ direnv allow
$ mg shell //tvix:shell
$ cd tvix
$ cargo build

Or just Tvix

At present, this option isn’t suitable for contributions & lacks the tooling of the monorepo, but still provides a shell.nix which can be used for building the Tvix project.

$ git clone https://code.tvl.fyi/depot.git:workspace=views/tvix.git
$ cd tvix
$ nix-shell
$ cargo build

Builds & tests

All projects are built using Nix to avoid ‘build pollution’ via the user’s local environment.

If you have Nix installed and are contributing to a project tracked in this repository, you can usually build the project by calling nix-build -A path.to.project.

For example, to build a project located at //tools/foo you would call nix-build -A tools.foo

If the project has tests, check that they still work before submitting your change.