Clang-Repl kernel for Jupyter

A simple Jupyter kernel for C/C++ using Clang-Repl. It works on Windows and Linux. (MacOS is not tested)

See: Clang-Repl

Please use Python 3.11 or higher. (3.12 is recommended)

• Windows 11 python3 3.12.0 Selected Jupyter core packages... IPython : 8.16.1 ipykernel : 6.25.2 ipywidgets : not installed jupyter_client : 8.4.0 jupyter_core : 5.4.0 jupyter_server : 2.7.3 jupyterlab : 4.0.7 nbclient : 0.8.0 nbconvert : 7.9.2 nbformat : 5.9.2 notebook : 7.0.5 qtconsole : not installed traitlets : 5.11.2

• Ubuntu 22.04 python3 3.12 IPython : 8.16.1 ipykernel : 6.25.2 ipywidgets : not installed jupyter_client : 8.4.0 jupyter_core : 5.4.0 jupyter_server : 2.7.3 jupyterlab : 4.0.7 nbclient : 0.8.0 nbconvert : 7.9.2 nbformat : 5.9.2 notebook : 7.0.5 qtconsole : not installed traitlets : 5.11.2

See: How to Install Python 3.12 on Ubuntu 22.04 - LinuxTuto See: Setting the Default python to python3 | Baeldung on Linux

CAUTION

currently windows printf() not working. (It will be fixed soon). please use cout instead of printf().

Trouble shot

When you see

/usr/include/stdio.h:33:10: fatal error: 'stddef.h' file not found
   33 | #include <stddef.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~
Segmentation fault

put path include 'stddef.h' file like and uninstall and reinstall clang-repl-kernel (You need to change llvm-18 to your llvm)

export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/lib/llvm-18/lib/clang/18/include/
pip uninstall clang_repl_kernel
pip install clang_repl_kernel

When you see

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ipykernel'

Use venv or conda environment and install notebook

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install notebook
pip -r requirements.txt

From Pip to install

To install clang_repl_kernel from pip into the active Python environment

    pip install clang_repl_kernel

From Git using Conda

To install clang_repl_kernel from git into a Conda environment

    git clone https://github.com/ormastes/jupyter_kernels/clang_repl_kernel.git
    cd clang_repl_kernel
    conda create -n ker jupyter
    conda activate ker
    pip install .

Using the Clang-Repl kernel

Notebook: The File > New > Notebook menu in the notebook should show an Kernel Selection for the notebook. Select kernel ''Clang-Repl (C++xx)'' to start a new notebook. (XX is the version of C++ you want to use)

Console frontends: To use it with the console frontends, add --kernel clang_repl_cppXX to their command line arguments. (XX is the version of C++ you want to use)

It fully checked on Windows 11 with clang 18.0.0, Python 3.11.5 and notebook 7.0.4. It fully checked on Ubuntu 20.04 with build_essential, clang 18.0.0, Python 3.10.22 and notebook 7.0.4.

Install default toolkit for cdoctest

run next command after install clang_repl_kernel

python -m clang_repl_kernel --install-default-toolchain

Reference

https://github.com/jupyter/echo_kernel https://saturncloud.io/blog/how-to-add-a-python-3-kernel-to-jupyter-ipython/ https://github.com/takluyver/bash_kernel