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Installation

We recommend that you use our binary distribution through pypi inside of a virtual environment, which supports both MacOs and Linux. On Windows we have successfully gotten pyre to work through WSL, but do not officially support it.

Binary Distribution​

You can get Pyre through pypi by running:

$ (venv) $ pip install pyre-check

See our Getting Started section for a more detailed example, including setup for a virtual environment.

IDE Integration​

Pyre supports the Language Server Protocol. We provide an extension for VSCode that will automatically try to connect to a running server. You can also directly interact with the LSP by piping the appropriate JSON into pyre persistent.

Building from Source​

These instructions are known to work on Mac OS X (tested on High Sierra through OSX 10.13 - even though binaries are compatible with versions as old as 10.11) and Linux (tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and CentOS 7).

Requirements​

In addition to Python and watchman, we need a working OCaml compiler. We use Opam to manage our compiler and libraries. You can get Opam via various package management systems. Please follow their instructions for your particular operating system.

Building the OCaml binary​

First, clone the repository from GitHub using:

$ git clone https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check

You can complete the setup of your development environment with:

$ cd pyre-check
$ ./scripts/setup.sh --local

This will compile Pyre and run all the unit tests. This is likely going to take some time on your system.

You can now make changes to the code. Run the following commands to compile and test your changes:

$ make
$ make test

Testing changes to the Python Client​

In a virtualenv, install dependencies with requirements.txt and run python tests to make sure everything is set up correctly

$ cd /path/to/pyre-check
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ ./scripts/run-python-tests.sh

When installing and running pyre from PyPi, the entry point to the executable is actually client/pyre.py. To be able to run this file from anywhere, add the directory containing the pyre-check directory to the PYTHONPATH environment variable and subsequently assign pyre as an alias for pyre-check.client.pyre. For the pyre command to correctly point to the compiled binary, also set the environment variable PYRE_BINARY to source/build/default/main.exe.

$ echo "alias pyre='PYTHONPATH=\"/path/to/pyre-check/..:\$PYTHONPATH\" python -m pyre-check.client.pyre'" >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo "export PYRE_BINARY=/path/to/pyre-check/source/_build/default/main.exe" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc

You should be able to open a new shell and run pyre -h now, confirming pyre was set-up correctly. Any changes made to the Pyre Python client code should be immediately observable the next time you invoke pyre

Testing changes for Plugin Development​

VSCode will not pick up your shell aliases, so the alias step in the previous section will not work if you're doing VSCode Plugin development. To get around this, instead of creating an alias, we can create an executable script called pyre and place it in a directory in our PATH:

#!/bin/bash
PYTHONPATH="/path/to/pyre-check/..:$PYTHONPATH" python -m pyre-check.client.pyre "$@"

Add the pyre-check/scripts directory to PATH (assuming you placed the above script in that directory) and then use the command pyre to launch the client like before

$ echo 'PATH="/path/to/pyre-check/scripts:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc

Building from Docker​

If you're having issues setting up or your OS is not yet supported, you can also use a Docker image. It runs Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) and builds pyre-check from source.

Before starting, ensure that Docker is installed on your computer.

  1. Clone the pyre-check repository and navigate to the root directory.

    git clone https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check.git
    cd pyre-check

  2. Build the Docker image with the tag pyre-check (or another tag if you wish)

    docker build -t pyre-docker .

  3. Run the new image in a new container pyre-container (or another name if you wish)

    docker run \
    --name pyre-container \
    -v /path/to/your/directory:/src \
    -t -i \
    pyre-check

    Note: Launching the container will build and run all tests.

  4. Inside the container, run any Pyre command now with pyre!

    Note: When initializing Pyre with pyre init, you may have to enter the following paths for the binary and typeshed:

    Ζ› No `pyre.bin` found, enter the path manually: /home/opam/pyre-check/source/_build/default/main.exe
    Ζ› Unable to locate typeshed, please enter its root: /home/opam/pyre-check/stubs/typeshed/typeshed-master

For contributors: Inside the Docker container, the added pyre-check directory is only editable by the root user. To contribute to Pyre, make edits in your local filesystem and rebuild the Docker by running Step 2, then running a new Docker container in Steps 3-4.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Install​

On x86_64 Windows pyre can run via Linux using WSL. A brief summary to get this running on Ubuntu please follow:

  • Install WSL (external Microsoft Documentation)
  • Once you have a login to your Linux of choice:
    • Optionally: Install build environment (some dependencies of pyre might need to be built)
    • Use pip as described above or via a Python Virtual Environment
  • Here is an example using Ubuntu with a venv:
$ sudo apt install python3-venv build-essential python3-dev libpython3-dev
$ python3 -m venv /tmp/tp
$ /tmp/tp/bin/pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
$ /tmp/tp/bin/pip install pyre-check
$ source /tmp/tp/bin/activate
$ cd /mnt/c/path/to/repo
$ pyre --source-directory . check

$ (tp) cooper@TESTFAC-1FMHLI2:/mnt/c/path/to/repo$ pyre --source-directory . check
 Ζ› Setting up a `.pyre_configuration` with `pyre init` may reduce overhead.
 Ζ› No type errors found