Setting up Calibre development environment

[EngelEatos]

Hi,

I want to set up a development environment. (Archlinux, zsh)

#!/bin/sh
export CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM="/home/rias/calibre/src"
calibre-debug -g

but it doesn't use the source folder. There is no asterisk beside the version.

asterisk after the version number in the GUI window, indicating that you are running from source.

calibre-debug output

Spoiler:

calibre 3.17  embedded-python: False is64bit: True
Linux-4.15.2-2-ARCH-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5 Linux ('64bit', '')
('Linux', '4.15.2-2-ARCH', '#1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 8 18:54:52 UTC 2018')
Python 2.7.14
Linux: ('', '', '')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: FanFicFare (2, 22, 0)
Turning on automatic hidpi scaling
devicePixelRatio: 2.0
logicalDpi: 48.0 x 48.1263157895
physicalDpi: 78.9126213592 x 79.2832369942
Using calibre Qt style: True
Starting up...
Looking for desktop notifier support from: org.freedesktop.Notifications
org.freedesktop.Notifications found in 0.0 seconds
Started up in 1.61 seconds with 0 books

I hope somebody can help. If you need further information, I will try to provide it.

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

If you want to use CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM you have to install the binary calibre install from https://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux not the arch calibre package.

[EngelEatos]

OMG. thank you so much. such a little change made it work

[eschwartz]

BTW if you're using the community package you could just use CALIBRE_PYTHON_PATH and CALIBRE_RESOURCES_PATH instead, see the contents of /usr/bin/calibre.

Also CALIBRE_EXTENSIONS_PATH if you're really interested in hacking the C extensions, but at that point I say just do like I do and install the calibre dependencies, but not calibre itself, and use `python2 setup.py develop` to install the source code. See https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...master/INSTALL

(Ironically I don't usually use the binary package I uploaded to [community]. )