Developer Documentation

Developers in this section are softare developers for the projects that are using Spack-Manager. This documentation is to help understand the basic requirements and workflow for developing software using Spack-Manager.

• Developers: What you need to know about Spack
  • Querying the Spack commands
  • Reading and writing Spack specs
  • Major steps of the Spack build process
• Quick-Start: Developer Workflow
  • Setup Spack-Manager
  • Creating an Environment
    • Managing the Source Code
  • Building and Making Code Changes
  • Running Tests and Coming Back
  • Quick Start
• Useful Commands for Development
  • Environment setup process
  • Environment loading process
  • Environment setup commands
    • quick-create
    • quick-create-dev
    • quick-develop
  • Environment re-use commands
    • quick-activate
    • build-env-dive
  • Other Commands
    • remove-spack-prompt
• Advanced Topics for Developers
  • Handling Multiple Environments
  • Cleaning Up Old Environments
  • Modifying Specs in an Environment
  • Debugging Spack Errors
  • When and How to Use Multiple Instances of Spack-Manager
  • Strategies for Conserving Disk Space
  • Constructing and Utilizing Multiple builds
• Snapshot Developer Workflow Example
  • Setup
  • Building
  • Editing Code
  • Running
  • Iterating