Development Guide

This document describes how to build GraphScope from source code.

Dev Environment

To build GraphScope from source code, you need to prepare a development environment with many dependencies and build toolchains. You using the following ways to prepare the development environment

  • Use our provided dev container

  • Install all tools and dependencies on your local machine

We strongly recommend you to use the dev containers to develop and test.

Develop with dev containers.

We provided a docker image graphscope-dev with all tools and dependencies included. Additionally, the devcontainer.json allows to quickly setup a develop environment within Visual Studio Code.

By using dev containers, developers can ensure that their development environment is consistent across different machines and operating systems, making it easier to collaborate with others and maintain a stable development environment.

To use the dev containers for GraphScope development, you can follow these steps:

  1. Install Docker on your machine if you haven’t already. Or install on the remote machine if you prefer to develop remotely.

  2. Clone the GraphScope repository.

  3. Open Visual Studio Code and navigate to the GraphScope repository.

  4. If you have the Remote Development extension installed, you can click on the green icon in the bottom left corner of the window and select “Remote-Containers: Reopen in Container”. If you don’t have the extension installed, you can install it from the Visual Studio Code marketplace.

  5. If you can’t see the Reopen in Container prompt, you could hit Command + Shift + P (macOS) or Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows, Linux) and type Reopen in Container.

  6. Once the container is built, you can open a terminal within Visual Studio Code.

  7. You could customize the devcontainer.json to suit your own needs. Once you have made your changes, you could rebuild the container with your customizations.

Install deps on local

To install all dependencies on your local, use the GraphScope command-line utility gsctl with the subcommand install-deps like this

# pip3 install gsctl
gsctl install-deps dev

# for more usage, try
# gsctl install-deps -h

You could download the gsctl directly or clone the GraphScope to local, the gsctl is located in the root directory of GraphScope.

# git clone https://github.com/alibaba/GraphScope.git
cd GraphScope && python3 gsctl.py install-deps dev

Build All Targets for GraphScope

You can build all targets for GraphScope with a single command.

cd GraphScope && make

This would build all targets sequentially, here we You may found the built artifacts in several places according to each components.

  • analytical engine: analytical_engine/build

  • interactive engine: interactive_engine/assembly/target

  • learning engine: learning_engine/graph-learn/graphlearn/cmake-build

And you could install them to one place by

make install [INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/graphscope]

By default it would install all artifacts to /opt/graphscope, and you could specify another location by assigning the value of INSTALL_PREFIX.

Build Components Individually

GraphScope is composed of several components, and you can build each of them separately. If you only changed some codes in one component or intend to use GraphScope in a disaggregated manner, you can build the affected components alone.

Build and Test Engines

You may find the guides for building and testing each engine as below.

Build Coordinator

The gscoordinator package is responsible for launching engines, circulating and propagating messages and errors, and scheduling the workload operations.

This will install coordinator package, thus make import gscoordinator work

Tip

The package would be installed in editable mode, which means any changed you made in local directory will take effect.

make coordinator

Build Python Client

The graphscope package is a python entrypoint for playing with GraphScope.

This will install the graphscope-client package, thus make import graphscope work.

Tip

This package would also be installed in editable mode, which means any changed you made in local directory will take effect.

make client

Build gsctl

The gsctl package is a command-line utility for GraphScope. It provides a set of functionalities to make it easy to use GraphScope.

This will install the gsctl package, thus make gsctl work.

Tip

This package would also be installed in editable mode, which means any changed you made in local directory will take effect.

make gsctl