Stream: contributing

Topic: new debug tip

view this post on Zulip Anton (Jul 30 2024 at 18:11):

I've added a debug tip to CONTRIBUTING.md and I thought it would be good to repeat it here as well:

Use a debug build of the compiler. We have many asserts enabled in the debug compiler that can alert you to something going wrong. When building from source, build the debug compiler with cargo build --bin roc, the binary is at roc/target/debug/roc. When using roc through a nix flake like in basic-cli, use rocPkgs.cli-debug instead of rocPkgs.cli

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