[Tutorial] Develop Chisel with Dev Container in Idea.
Why Dev Container?
The Dev Container is a lightweight, self-contained environment that allows you to develop in a containerized environment. It is a good choice for developing Chisel, because it can provide a consistent development environment for all developers.
Why IntelliJ Idea?
IntelliJ Idea is a powerful IDE for Scala development. It supports Chisel highlighting and definition navigation well.
How to use Dev Container in Idea?
Here we use the chisel-chipware project as an example.
Step 1: Enable Dev Container Plugin
From the official document, we need to enable the Dev Containers
plugin first.
Then open the chisel-chipware
project in Idea, open the .devcontainer/devcontainer.json
file, and click the Create Dev Container and Mount
button.
Then wait for the Dev Container to be built.
Step 2: Open the Project in Dev Container and generate bsp
After the Dev Container is built, we can open the project in the Dev Container.
We need to generate the bsp file first. Execute the following command in the terminal:
mill -i -j 0 mill.bsp.BSP/install
Then we open any .scala
file and install the Scala plugin.
Then we restart the Idea.
Step 3: Open the Project in Dev Container again and import bsp
After the bsp file is generated, we can open the project in the Dev Container again. Then we can import the bsp file for Chisel development.
You may either search for the Project from Existing Sources action or select File > New > Project (Module) from Existing Sources.
Then we can select the bsp file to import.
After the import is complete, we can develop Chisel in the Dev Container and navigate the definitions.