Contributing to Eclipse Cyclone DDS¶

We welcome all contributions to the project, including questions, examples, bug fixes, enhancements or improvements to the documentation, etc.

Tip

Contributing to Eclipse Cyclone DDS means donating your code to the Eclipse foundation. It requires that you sign the Eclipse Contributor Agreement using Eclipse Contributor Agreement. In summary, this means that your contribution is yours to give away, and that you allow others to use and distribute it. However, don’t take legal advice from this getting started guide, read the terms linked above.

To contribute code, it may be helpful to know that build configurations for Azure DevOps Pipelines are present in the repositories. There is a test suite using CTest that can be built locally.

Set the CMake variable BUILD_TESTING to ON when configuring, e.g.:

cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBUILD_TESTING=ON ..
cmake --build .
ctest

Set the CMake variable BUILD_TESTING to ON when configuring, e.g.:

cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBUILD_TESTING=ON ..
cmake --build .
ctest

Set the CMake variable BUILD_TESTING to ON when configuring, e.g.:

cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBUILD_TESTING=ON ..
cmake --build .
ctest