tree-sitter-docker

A docker image with all the necessary libaries you need to build tree-sitter .so files

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We at CodistAI use tree-sitter a lot. Now, it depends on clang to be able to function properly. When one of our team-mate used Ubuntu, they found it hard to compile some of the tree-sitter libaries (Following the instructions here) So, this little Dockerfile will let you install all the needed dependencies and then bring you right inside a iPython prompt where you can run the example code and build the libraries.

Building the docker image

Git clone this repo and then cd to it.

Then use the following command to build the image

docker build -t ubuntu-clang-image .

Using the image

• Go to any directory. (For the sake of this example we assume that you created a directory tree like docker_llvm/tree_sitter_libs and you are the docker_llvm level)

• Run

docker run -it -v $PWD/tree_sitter_libs:/tree_sitter_libs --name ubuntu_clang ubuntu-clang-image

• You will be right in the middle of an iPython prompt.

• You will need to clone some of the tree-sitter libs. So let's say something like this

>>> !git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python
>>> !git clone https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-php

• Once done, you should be able to use the following code to build the .so file

from tree_sitter import Language, Parser

Language.build_library(
  # Store the library in the `tree_sitter_libs` directory
  'tree_sitter_libs/my-languages.so',

  # Include one or more languages
  [
    'tree-sitter-php',
    'tree-sitter-python'
  ]
)

• Voila! you will have your .so in the tree_sitter_libs directory, ready to be used.