Development environment

Installing a development environment for different operating systems.

Setup the dependencies:

Install necessary dependencies:

Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install -y build-essential curl git redis-server python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv python3-tk libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev pkg-config libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libswresample-dev libavfilter-dev

# Install Node.js 16 and yarn
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo npm install --global yarn

MacOS 10.15

brew install git python pyenv redis curl openssl node sqlite3 geos

Arch Linux

# Update the system and AUR (you can use any other AUR helper of choice) first:
sudo pacman -Syyu
pikaur -Syu

# Install the required dependencies:
sudo pacman -S base-devel curl git redis cmake gcc python python-pip tk libldap libsasl pkgconf ffmpeg geos openldap python-lda

# CVAT supports only Python 3.9, so install it if you don’t have it:
pikaur -S python39

# Install Node.js 16, yarn and npm
sudo pacman -S nodejs-lts-gallium yarn npm

Install Chrome
Install FFmpeg libraries (libav*) version 4.0 or higher.
Install VS Code.
Install the following VScode extensions:
Make sure to use Python 3.9.0 or higher
```
python3 --version
```
Install CVAT on your local host:
```
git clone https://github.com/cvat-ai/cvat
cd cvat && mkdir logs keys
python3 -m venv .env
. .env/bin/activate
pip install -U pip wheel setuptools
pip install -r cvat/requirements/development.txt -r utils/dataset_manifest/requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py collectstatic
```
Note for Mac users

If you have any problems with installing dependencies from cvat/requirements/*.txt, you may need to reinstall your system python In some cases after system update it can be configured incorrectly and cannot compile some native modules

Make sure Homebrew lib path is in DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. For Apple Silicon: export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/homebrew/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

Homebrew will install FFMpeg 5.0 by default, which does not work, so you should install 4.X. You can install older 4.X FFMpeg using Homebrew like that:
```
 cd "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)"
 git checkout addd616edc9134f057e33694c420f4900be59db8
 brew unlink ffmpeg
 HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install ffmpeg
 git checkout master
```
if you are still facing error Running setup.py install for av ... error, you may try more radical variant
```
 cd "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)"
 git checkout addd616edc9134f057e33694c420f4900be59db8
 brew uninstall ffmpeg --force
 HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install ffmpeg
 git checkout master
```
If you faced with error Failed building wheel for h5py, you may need install hdf5
```
brew install hdf5
export HDF5_DIR="$(brew --prefix hdf5)"
pip install --no-binary=h5py h5py
```
If you faced with error OSError: Could not find library geos_c or load any of its variants ['libgeos_c.so.1', 'libgeos_c.so']. You may fix this using
```
sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/lib/libgeos_c.dylib /usr/local/lib
```
On Mac with Apple Silicon (M1) in order to install TensorFlow you will have to edit cvat/requirements/base.txt. Change tensorflow to tensorflow-macos May need to downgrade version Python to 3.9.* or upgrade version tensorflow-macos
Note for Arch Linux users:

In order to build python-ldap, the gcc compiler needs to be pointed to the right file, since lib name has been changed from libldap_r to libldap, otherwise wheels for python-ldap won’t be built and the install will fail. You need to create a symlink between the newer and older ldap libraries:
```
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libldap.so /usr/lib/libldap_r.so
```
Because PyAV as of version 10.0.0 already works with FFMPEG5, you may consider changing the av version requirement in /cvat/cvat/requirements/base.txt to 10.0.0 or higher.

Perform these actions before installing cvat requirements from the list mentioned above.
Create a super user for CVAT:
```
python manage.py createsuperuser
```
Install npm packages for UI (run the following command from CVAT root directory):
```
yarn --frozen-lockfile
```
Note for Mac users

If you faced with error

Node Sass does not yet support your current environment: OS X 64-bit with Unsupported runtime (57)

Read this article Node Sass does not yet support your current environment
Install Docker Engine and Docker-Compose

Pull and run OpenPolicyAgent Docker image:

 docker run -d --rm --name cvat_opa_debug -p 8181:8181 openpolicyagent/opa:0.34.2-rootless \
 run --server --set=decision_logs.console=true --set=services.cvat.url=http://host.docker.internal:7000 \
 --set=bundles.cvat.service=cvat --set=bundles.cvat.resource=/api/auth/rules

Run CVAT

Start npm UI debug server (run the following command from CVAT root directory):
- If you want to run CVAT in localhost:
```
yarn run start:cvat-ui
```
- If you want to access CVAT from outside of your host:
```
CVAT_UI_HOST='<YOUR_HOST_IP>' yarn run start:cvat-ui
```
Open a new terminal window.
Run VScode from the virtual environment (run the following command from CVAT root directory):
```
source .env/bin/activate && code
```
Inside VScode, Open CVAT root dir
Select server: debug configuration and run it (F5) to run REST server and its workers
Make sure that Uncaught Exceptions option under breakpoints section is unchecked
If you choose to run CVAT in localhost: Select server: chrome configuration and run it (F5) to open CVAT in Chrome
Alternative: If you changed CVAT_UI_HOST just enter <YOUR_HOST_IP>:3000 in your browser.

You have done! Now it is possible to insert breakpoints and debug server and client of the tool. Instructions for running tests locally are available here.

Note for Windows users

You develop CVAT under WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux) following next steps.

Install WSL using this guide.
Following this guide install Ubuntu 18.04 Linux distribution for WSL.
Run Ubuntu using start menu link or execute next command
```
wsl -d Ubuntu-18.04
```
Run all commands from this installation guide in WSL Ubuntu shell.
You might have to manually start the redis server in wsl before you can start the configuration inside Visual Studio Code. You can do this with sudo service redis-server start. Alternatively you can also use a redis docker image instead of using the redis-server locally.

Note for Mac users

You might have to manually start the redis server. You can do this with redis-server. Alternatively you can also use a redis docker image instead of using the redis-server locally.

Note for Arch Linux users

You need to start redis and docker services manually in order to begin debugging/running tests:
```
sudo systemctl start redis.service
sudo systemctl start docker.service
```