IKdbQ

IKdbQ is a simple kernel for Jupyter project that allows you to write KDB+/Q code with Jupyter console and notebook. It was initially translated from simple_kernel.

Currently it supports basic code execution and naive code completion. It's worth mentioning that multi-line input without trailing semicolons is supported in notebook, as supposed to most other Q IDE's.

More advanced features are to be done in the future.

Installation

Note: The code is only tested on Ubuntu 14.04.2 i386. For building the project in 64-bit machines for the free 32-bit of kdb+, -m32 flag is needed.

Install kdb+/q

Install qzmq

This is a modified version of jaeheum's qzmq
It requires ZeroMQ (2.2.0) and czmq.
Note: jaeheum upgraded his qzmq to version 3.0.1 recently.

Install qcrypt (Q interface for OpenSSL)

1. Install OpenSSL
   Note: use sudo make install_sw (instead of make install) if you encounter errors like "POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 71."

2. Compile qcrypt for Q

   gcc -DKXVER=3 -shared -fPIC qcrypt.c -o qcrypt.so -Wall -Wextra -I../kx/kdb+3.0/ -L../kx/kdb+3.0/l32 -L/usr/local/openssl/lib -I/usr/local/openssl/include -lssl -lcrypto -ldl cp qcrypt.so $HOME/q/l32
cp qcrypt.q $HOME/q/

Install IPython 3.1

On Ubuntu: pip install ipython[all]

Configuring Jupyter

Create a folder called q under ~/.ipython/kernels, and copy kernel.json there.

`mkdir -p ~/.ipython/kernels/q && cp ./kernel.json ~/.ipython/kernels/q`

Start IKdbQ

`ipython console --kernel q -f connection.json`  
`ipython qtconsole --kernel q -f connection.json`  
`ipython notebook` (then choose language KDB+/Q)