Best, Nice or Comfortable Practices to setup a development environment for BonsaiBIM

F by falken10vdl on 21 Mar 2025, edited 21 Mar 2025 #

@Moult said:

When there is an agreed workflow for VSCode, due to its popularity it woudl be awesome if you could submit a PR to update the docs :)

@Moult here is a PR Add quickstart guide for linux IDE #6408 for a possible QS guide for IDE in Linux. If you guys can provide feedback I can update it and do the corresponding ones for Windows & MacOs.

My native language is not English either, so maybe there are awkward constructions...

I attach the QS as a print to PDF from the html page.

Thanks!

L by lfcastel on 19 Apr 2025, edited 19 Apr 2025 #

@theoryshaw said:

This might be helpful, as well: https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/blob/7b7108b9389104077feb225c6cbfc554c8338c56/src/bonsai/docs/guides/development/debugging.rst#L8

New to this, but i tried the 'Bundling for Blender' and the same error in this doc kept popping up:

cd build && python3 -m venv env && . env/bin/activate && pip3.11 install build

/bin/sh: pip3.11: command not found

Seems to be something with pip, but I can't figure it out...

F by falken10vdl on 19 Apr 2025 #

@ifcastel what os and version are you running?. Basically you seem to not have pip3.11 installed or in the path.

L by lfcastel on 20 Apr 2025, edited 20 Apr 2025 #

@falken10vdl said:

@ifcastel what os and version are you running?. Basically you seem to not have pip3.11 installed or in the path.

MacOS Sequoia on a Mac Mini with M2 chip. I figured out the error: i was building for python3.12, but if you look at the makefile it uses pip3.11, which i had not installed since i did not have python3.11 installed. Is it weird that it uses pip3.11 for building for python3.12?

However, it seems to build for quite a while and then says IfcOpenShell/src/ifcopenshell-python/build/env/bin/python3: No module named build

F by falken10vdl on 20 Apr 2025 #

Ah! I do not have MacOs. Maybe others can help?