tomlplusplus/CONTRIBUTING.md

# Contributing to toml++
Contributions are very welcome! Either by [reporting issues] or submitting pull requests.
If you wish to submit a PR, please be aware that:
- The single-header file `toml.hpp` is generated by a script; make your changes in the files in
    `include`, **not** in `toml.hpp`.
- Your changes should compile warning-free on at least one of:
    - GCC 8 or higher
    - Clang 8 or higher
    - MSVC 19.2X (Visual Studio 2019) or higher
- You should regenerate the single-header file as part of your PR (a CI check will fail if you don't).

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## Regenerating toml.hpp
1. Make your changes as necessary
    - If you've added a new header file that isn't going to be transitively included by one of the
        others, add an include directive to `include/toml++/toml.h`
2. Install the prerequisite python packages: `pip3 install -r tools/requirements.txt`
3. Run `tools/generate_single_header.py`

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## Building and running the tests
Testing is done using [Catch2], included in the respository as a submodule under `extern/Catch2`.
The first time you want to begin testing you'll need to ensure submodules have been fetched:  
```bash
git submodule update --init --depth 1 external/Catch2 external/tloptional
```

### Testing on Windows with Visual Studio

Install [Visual Studio] and [Test Adapter for Catch2], then open `vs/toml++.sln` and build the
projects in the `tests` solution folder. Visual Studio's Test Explorer should pick these up and
allow you to run the tests directly.

If test discovery fails you can usually fix it by enabling
`Auto Detect runsettings Files` (settings gear icon > `Configure Run Settings`).

### Testing on Linux (and WSL)
```bash
# install ninja, meson, locales (first time only)
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y locales python3 python3-pip ninja-build
sudo pip3 install meson
sudo locale-gen 'en_US.utf8' \
                'ja_JP.utf8' \
                'de_DE.utf8' \
                'it_IT.utf8' \
                'tr_TR.utf8' \
                'fi_FI.utf8' \
                'fr_FR.utf8' \
                'zh_CN.utf8'

# create the build configs (first time only)
CXX=g++     meson build-gcc-debug     --buildtype=debug   -Dpedantic=true -Dbuild_tests=true -Dgenerate_cmake_config=false
CXX=clang++ meson build-clang-debug   --buildtype=debug   -Dpedantic=true -Dbuild_tests=true -Dgenerate_cmake_config=false
CXX=g++     meson build-gcc-release   --buildtype=release -Dpedantic=true -Dbuild_tests=true -Dgenerate_cmake_config=false
CXX=clang++ meson build-clang-release --buildtype=release -Dpedantic=true -Dbuild_tests=true -Dgenerate_cmake_config=false

# run the tests
cd build-gcc-debug && ninja && ninja test               \
    && cd ../build-clang-debug && ninja && ninja test   \
    && cd ../build-gcc-release && ninja && ninja test   \
    && cd ../build-clang-release && ninja && ninja test \
    && cd ..
```


[Visual Studio]: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/
[Test Adapter for Catch2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JohnnyHendriks.ext01
[reporting issues]: https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus/issues
[Catch2]: https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2
[meson]: https://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html
[ninja]: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/wiki/Pre-built-Ninja-packages