@Crispin use :extra-paths inside your alias to specify the extra directors

And perhaps show us exactly what you have tried and exactly how it failed?

I tried :paths, and :clj-paths, and :main-opts passing extra flags

it failed with

Could not generate clojure documentation for pod.epiccastle.bbssh.utils - root cause: java.io.FileNotFoundException Could not locate pod/epiccastle/bbssh/utils__init.class, pod/epiccastle/bbssh/utils.clj or pod/epiccastle/bbssh/utils.cljc on classpath.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not locate pod/epiccastle/bbssh/utils__init.class, pod/epiccastle/bbssh/utils.clj or pod/epiccastle/bbssh/utils.cljc on classpath.

ah bugger, that adds the classpath allright, but now it fails because it cant compile (which is why it's not in the classpath to begin with)

If Codox loads the code to generate docs, it is a compiling it.

it now doesnt load (even though the classpath is added) because the code cant compile:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: babashka.pods
	at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:476)
	at clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader.findClass(DynamicClassLoader.java:69)
	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:589)
	at clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader.loadClass(DynamicClassLoader.java:77)
	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
	at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:398)
	at clojure.lang.RT.classForName(RT.java:2209)
	at clojure.lang.RT.classForNameNonLoading(RT.java:2222)
	at clojure.lang.Compiler$HostExpr.maybeClass(Compiler.java:1041)
	at clojure.lang.Compiler.macroexpand1(Compiler.java:7062)
	at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq(Compiler.java:7110)
	... 156 more

That says Babashka pods isn't on the classpath

So I expect you need to add that as :extra-deps in that alias

(sorry, on phone)

babashka.pods only exists inside sci context over in babashka

and this code that I want codox to run over, is text files that get injected into the babashka context

Then you can't use it with Codox

looks like codox cant do it... as long as its searching for code on the classpath

thanks anyway

Ask in #babashka?

sure

I also might be able to do something hacky, like preprocess those source files to remove offending vars...

Or get Codox to run under bb?😁

Or use #quickdoc

depends, clojure itself (the clojure.main entry point) always produces some kind of error message, possibly just pointing you to a file that contains the full error message

if you aren't getting any error message at all then you may need to look at whatever that alias is actually launching (assuming it isn't just clojure.main), that might be swallowing any errors

additionally, when an issue report is vague, it is often good to revisit and verify the underlying assumptions in the report: how do you know it is failing to compile if it just exits without an error message?

if I remove the namespace I require from the gen-class'd namespace with -main it works fine

that lets me start a repl and then manually require that same ns

maybe I'll try to make an actually minimal testcase

what is the the alias doing?

what are the main opts?

it's actually two, both adding :extra-pathsand :extra-deps

but no :main-opts?

nope

are you aot compiling your gen-class somehow? (gen-class is a no op without aot)

I assume I'm doing something weird. I have an alias named nrepl that adds nrepl to the deps and then includes a path with a user.clj

I don't think I'm doing aot, not for dev

oh, try it without the user.clj (rename it to foo.clj or something)

good idea

yeah, without that user.clj I don't think it pulls in the offending namespace so it works fine

what's the accepted way of adding nrepl? I put this in my user.clj and it seemed so.. wrong:

(ns user (:require [proj.main :as main] [nrepl.server :as nrepl])) (defonce nrepl-server (nrepl/start-server)) (spit "./.nrepl-port" (:port nrepl-server)) (main/-main)

and what happens if you start your repl without the user.clj and load proj.main and call (proj.main/-main)

yeah, then I see the compile error when I (require 'proj.main)

oh, of course, user.clj is loaded so early it doesn't have all the error reporting stuff around it

ah I see

I don't know how people launch nrepl these days

I suppose I should just make my user.clj more simple and have some go function that actually runs my app

I was used to lein repl doing everything for me

thank you for your help, that error reporting explanation makes sense

I just thought I might be missing some glaringly obvious flag on clj or doing something silly