Setup KDB SDK
Overview
This functionality is available in InelliJ IDEA product. In all other platforms this functionality is not available.
If you need to do local testing or just start a local KDB instance from IDEA you have to create a new KDB+Q SDK if not done yet.
Configuration
To do that, please open project structure and select ‘SKDs’ tab in ‘Platform Settings’ section where you can see all current SDKs for all languages:
When just press adds ‘plus’ button to create a new one:
and select home Q folder where QHOME environment variable is pointed to:
and new KDB SDK will be added to the configuration where you can always change any it’s parameter:
Project SDK
Depends on your setup, you can select SDK for the whole project in the same project settings dialog:
Module SDK
If you have multi-modules project with mix of language, you can select KDB SDK for particular module only. Just select the appropriate module and required SDK on ‘Dependencies’ tab: