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# Beginner's guide to hacking Coq
## Getting dependencies
See the first section of [`INSTALL`](../../INSTALL). Developers are
recommended to use a recent OCaml version, which they can get through
opam or Nix, in particular.
## Building `coqtop`
The general workflow is to first setup a development environment with
the correct `configure` settings, then hacking on Coq, make-ing, and testing.
This document will use `$JOBS` to refer to the number of parallel jobs one
is willing to have with `make`.
```
$ git clone git clone https://github.com/coq/coq.git
$ cd coq
$ ./configure -profile devel
$ make -j $JOBS # Make once for `merlin`(autocompletion tool)
<hack>
$ make -j $JOBS states # builds just enough to run coqtop
$ bin/coqtop -compile <test_file_name.v>
<goto hack until stuff works>
<run test-suite>
```
To learn how to run the test suite, you can read
[`test-suite/README.md`](../../test-suite/README.md).
## Coq functions of interest
- `Coqtop.start`: This function is the main entry point of coqtop.
- `Coqtop.parse_args `: This function is responsible for parsing command-line arguments.
- `Coqloop.loop`: This function implements the read-eval-print loop.
- `Vernacentries.interp`: This function is called to execute the Vernacular command user have typed.
It dispatches the control to specific functions handling different Vernacular command.
- `Vernacentries.vernac_check_may_eval`: This function handles the `Check ...` command.
## Development environment + tooling
- [`Merlin`](https://github.com/ocaml/merlin) for autocomplete.
- [Wiki pages on tooling containing `emacs`, `vim`, and `git` information](https://github.com/coq/coq/wiki/DevelSetup)
## A note about rlwrap
When using `rlwrap coqtop` make sure the version of `rlwrap` is at least
`0.42`, otherwise you will get
```
rlwrap: error: Couldn't read completions from /usr/share/rlwrap/completions/coqtop: No such file or directory
```
If this happens either update or use an alternate readline wrapper like `ledit`.
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