How to develop envoy in CLion with bazel plugin

Wednesday. June 12, 2019 - 1 min

Install

You’ll need:

CLion
Custom build of bazel plugin

Debugging project

Launch CLion
Import envoy via bazel plugin
Select WORKSPACE file envoy/WORKSPACE
Next
Select BUILD file envoy/BUILD
Wait for project to synchronize

Add run configuration

Target expression: //source/exe:envoy-static
Bazel command: run
Bazel flags: -c dbg --spawn_strategy=standalone
Executable flags: --config-path PATH_TO_ENVOY_CONFIG -l debug

run configuration

Set symbolic breakpoints (only those work, but it’s better than nothing)
Click debug
Debugger should stop on in the main function

Krzysztof Słonka

Software engineer at Kong. Pragmatic programmer. Nowadays I mostly write "if err != nil"