CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Setup

Install Rust

It is recommended to install rust through rustup. System package managers often have outdated versions of Rust or don't include rustfmt/clippy.

Install rustfmt and clippy

rustup component add rustfmt
rustup component add clippy

External Dependencies

The rodio backend requires alsa development libraries on linux. These should be available through your package manager. No extra dependencies should be needed on macOS/Windows.

Other backends will need additional dependencies. Some are documented in the (readme)[https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd/blob/master/README.md] and the (librespot repo)[https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md].

Building and Running the project

To run spotifyd with the rodio backend run

cargo run --features rodio_backend --no-default-features  -- --backend rodio --no-daemon

See the readme for information on setting up a config file and what features are available.

Contributing Code

Note that spotifyd uses Cargo.lock to track dependency versions. It shouldn't be changed unless you are intentionally bumping a dependency version.

Check your code with rustfmt and clippy.

cargo fmt -- --check
cargo clippy --no-default-features --features rodio_backend -- -D warnings

CI will run clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings but this requires having dependencies for all features installed.

Create a PR on github.