bicep-langserver installation help

[mahalel]

Hey, I love this editor and thank you for a great project.
In the output of hx --health I can see there is support for bicep with bicep-langserver, however I cannot figure out how to get this installed so that Helix detects it and uses it correctly.

I have downloaded the zip for the langserver and unzipped it in my $PATH (under /usr/local/bin/bicep-langserver). There are a bunch of .dll files in that folder but not so much an executable binary that I can see.

However, it is still not getting picked up by Helix, I wonder if anyone has got this working which could point me in the right direction please.

[woojiq]

Code responsible for detecting binarie:

helix/helix-term/src/health.rs

Lines 185 to 189 in 48eb0d4

	Some(cmd) => match which::which(&cmd) {
	Ok(_) => column(&format!("✓ {}", cmd), Color::Green),
	Err(_) => column(&format!("✘ {}", cmd), Color::Red),
	},
	None => column("None", Color::Yellow),

Try running which bicep-langserver on your device, what's the result?
Make sure PATH doesn't contain a tilde, see: #7266

[mahalel]

Hi, thanks for your answer which: no bicep-langserver in ......paths
I don't think bicep-langserver has a linux executable per-se, it's literally a zip file which if you unzip is a bunch of dlls. I suspect it's a Windows thing only?

I'm only asking because it's showing up on the list of supported LSPs so I wondered if anyone got it working on linux/wsl2, as I'm not smart enough to figure it out.

[woojiq]

The zip archive has Bicep.LangServer.exe, so I assume it's built for Windows. Anyway, I think it's better to ask this question in the biceps repo than here. Or ask @lunjon who added this language to helix.

I have a working configuration for the LSP that I use in Helix already. I could also write on how to install/setup the language server.

[lunjon]

Hi! Sorry for late reply (I'm on parental leave).

You are correct in everything you say, and there's no executable for the language server. However, I have followed a convention used in several other language servers and created a script file that is executable and put in a directory somewhere in $PATH:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
exec dotnet /home/myuser/.cache/bicep-langserver/Bicep.LangServer.dll

I'm not a Windows user myself so I don't know how to solve it other than overriding command in the configuration.

[mahalel]

@lunjon that is beautiful, that works perfectly for me now! @woojiq I don't believe I can contribute directly to the wiki to add this information in. What is the best process to get the wiki updated for bicep please?

[gabydd]

You should be able to edit the wiki directly there should be an edit button in the top right corner

[mahalel]

Thanks @gabydd I didn't realise the permissions were so open. I have added the instructions now - https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/How-to-install-the-default-language-servers#bicep

Appreciate your help all :)