README.md

C Coding Kata

Setup

• Visual Studio Code
  • Download here: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• MinGW-w64
  • Download here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/latest/download
  • Select the following options:
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Threads: posix
  • Exception: seh
  • Add gcc path (C:\Program Files\mingw-w64\x86_64-7.3.0-posix-seh-rt_v5-rev0\mingw64\bin) to environment variable PATH
• watchexec
  • Download here: https://github.com/mattgreen/watchexec/releases
  • Create a directory for the coding katas and place watchexec.exe in there.
• Ruby (should already be installed)
  • Download here: https://rubyinstaller.org/
  • gem install ceedling

Verification of setup

Test the following commands in a cmd or git bash

• ceedling welcomes you
• watchexec.exe shows error message about arguments
• gcc.exe shows error about missing input files

Create new project

1. Go to the directory containing watchexec.exe
2. ceedling new <project-name>
3. cd <project-name>
4. ceedling module:create[<module-name>]

Run unit tests

• Just once: ceedling
• Everytime a file is saved: ../watchexec.exe -w src -w test ceedling

Run unit tests with VSCode

• Copy tasks.json from 'env/' to 'project-folder/.vscode/'
• In VSCode: Tasks -> Run Task -> Run unit tests