hx --grammar build fails with Groovy tree-sitter grammar on Ubuntu 20.04

[holtkampjs]

Description

I'm attempting to set up a tree-sitter grammar for Groovy: tree-sitter-groovy.

Setup

The addition I made to my languages.toml is as follows:

[[language]]
name = "groovy"
scope = "source.groovy"
roots = []
file-types = ["groovy"]

[[grammar]]
name = "groovy"
source = { git = "https://github.com/Decodetalkers/tree-sitter-groovy", rev = "4c4c13eb3121f6bdc76d3ead9a1083ed08e70177" }

Execution

The fetch succeeded.

hx --grammar fetch

The build command failed with the following output:

hx --grammar build

Building 137 grammars
136 grammars already built
Failure 1/1: groovy Failed to execute C/C++ compiler
Error: 1 grammars failed to build

Debugging

I searched the issues in this repository: Issues.

The general advice was to check that both gcc and g++ are installed.

$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.2) 9.4.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ g++ --version
g++ (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.2) 9.4.0
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR P

The other advice were to check/set the CC environment variable. Mine was set to nothing, so I set it to the path of the gcc executable and still received the same error when building.

$ echo $CC

$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
$ set -Ux CC /usr/bin/gcc
$ echo $CC
/usr/bin/gcc
$ hx --grammar build
Building 137 grammars
136 grammars already built
Failure 1/1: groovy Failed to execute C/C++ compiler
Error: 1 grammars failed to build

I realized the fact that I'm working in a fish shell could be causing issues. So, I opened a bash shell and saw the same output for both echo $CC and hx --build grammar.

System Infomation

Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04
Shell: Fish
Helix: helix 23.10 (f6021dd0)

$ uname -a
Linux wdxd3ks5m3 5.15.0-91-generic #101~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 16 14:22:28 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Notes

I really love using Helix as my main editor. The rough edges I've encountered have been dealing with languages that are not supported out of the box (groovy and powershell). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[the-mikedavis]

I can reproduce the build failure. That groovy parser doesn't check in the C files under src/ into git that we compile, so the parsing step fails

[kirawi]

You can do source.path to point to a local location

[apraga]

Cloning the repository, running tree-sitter generate generate the srcdirectiory.
Then hx --grammar buid succeed with the following configuration.

[[language]]
name = "groovy"
scope = "source.groovy"
roots = []
file-types = ["nf", "nextflow", "groovy"]

[[grammar]]
name = "groovy"
source = { path = "/home/alex/code/tree-sitter-groovy" }

However, there is no syntax highlighting in a .groovy file

[kirawi]

Did you copy the queries to your runtime folder? https://docs.helix-editor.com/guides/adding_languages.html

[apraga]

@kirawi There does not seem to be a queries folder so that explains the absence of highlighting !

[Zoybean]

I'm having the same issue on windows 10 (without WSL), but with near-identical groovy language configuration.
Just filling in the parts that I needed that weren't documented in the accepted answer:

• ran cargo install tree-sitter-cli to get the tree-sitter shell command
• tree-sitter generate complained about node not being installed, so I installed that
  • node installation failed to install some part of the C/C++ compiler tools, likely because they're already been installed. I ignored the error and rebooted.

After doing the above, tree-sitter generate successfully runs, hx --grammar build succeeds for all languages, but hx --health groovy gives the same results as before building the grammar:

> hx --health groovy
Configured language servers: None
Configured debug adapter: None
Highlight queries: ✘
Textobject queries: ✘
Indent queries: ✘

I have a runtime/queries directory, but there's no runtime/queries/groovy. Have I missed a step to generate the queries?
Update: I reread the instructions - I misunderstood the step to copy the queries. As Decodetalkers/tree-sitter-groovy doesn't include its own queries, I was a bit stuck, but the repo's one issue links to murtaza64/tree-sitter-groovy which builds without issue and does include queries. After that, running cp -r runtime\grammars\sources\groovy\queries\ runtime\queries\groovy resolved the issue.
After going through all that, it seems the real solution for me was to just switch from Decodetalkers/tree-sitter-groovy to murtaza64/tree-sitter-groovy. All the other steps were just workarounds for the former that weren't needed for the latter.