place start-bloop.sh in /usr/local/bin and bloop.json in project_root_dir/.bsp/bloop.json

Readme.md

Installation

place start-bloop.sh in /usr/local/bin

make it executable:

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/start-bloop.sh

Project installation

Add bloop.json in project_root_dir/.bsp/bloop.json

bloop.json

{
  "name": "Bloop",
  "version": "2",
  "bspVersion": "2.0.0",
  "languages": [
    "scala"
  ],
  "argv": [
    "/usr/local/bin/start-bloop.sh"
  ]
}

bsp.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Put this file in .idea/bsp.xml -->
<project version="4">
  <component name="BspSettings">
    <option name="linkedExternalProjectsSettings">
      <BspProjectSettings>
        <option name="externalProjectPath" value="$PROJECT_DIR$" />
        <option name="modules">
          <set>
            <option value="$PROJECT_DIR$" />
          </set>
        </option>
        <option name="runPreImportTask" value="false" />
      </BspProjectSettings>
    </option>
  </component>
</project>

start-bloop.sh

#!/bin/bash

is_mac() {
 test "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin"
}

is_linux() {
  test "$(uname)" = "Linux"
}

# Block until the given file appears or the given timeout is reached.
# Exit status is 0 iff the file exists.
wait_file() {
  local file="$1"; shift
  local wait_seconds="${1:-10}"; shift # 10 seconds as default timeout
  test $wait_seconds -lt 1 && echo "At least 1 second is required" && return 1

  until test $((wait_seconds--)) -eq 0 -o -e "$file" ; do sleep 1; done

  test $wait_seconds -ge 0 # equivalent: let ++wait_seconds
}

echoerr() {
  printf "%s\n" "$*" >&2;
}

BLOOP=$(command -v bloop)

if [ "Z$BLOOP" == "Z" ]; then

 if is_mac; then
   DARWIN_BASE="$HOME/Library/Application Support/Coursier/bin"
   if [ -f "$DARWIN_BASE/bloop-jvm" ]; then
     BLOOP="$DARWIN_BASE/bloop-jvm"  
   elif [ -f "$DARWIN_BASE/bloop" ]; then
     BLOOP="$DARWIN_BASE/bloop"
   fi
   if [ "Z$BLOOP" == "Z" ]; then
     DARWIN_BASE="/usr/local/bin" #homebrew
     if [ -f "$DARWIN_BASE/bloop" ]; then
       BLOOP="$DARWIN_BASE/bloop"
     fi
     DARWIN_BASE="/opt/homebrew/bin" #homebrew aarch64
     if [ -f "$DARWIN_BASE/bloop" ]; then
       BLOOP="$DARWIN_BASE/bloop"
     fi
   fi  
 elif is_linux; then
   LINUX_BASE=$HOME/.local/share/coursier/bin
   if [ -f "$LINUX_BASE/bloop" ]; then
     BLOOP="$LINUX_BASE/bloop"
   fi
 fi

  if [ "Z$BLOOP" == "Z" ]; then
    BLOOP_BIN=$HOME/.bloop/bin/bloop
    if [ -f "$BLOOP_BIN" ]; then
        BLOOP="$BLOOP_BIN"
    fi
  fi
fi

if [ "Z$BLOOP" == "Z" ]; then
 echoerr "bloop is not installed"
 exit 1
fi
echoerr "BLOOP is '$BLOOP'"

temp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
socketPath="$temp_dir/bsp.socket"

if [ -e $socketPath ]; then
  rm $socketPath
fi

#default port is 8212, should we support tcp sockets as well?

exec "$BLOOP" bsp --protocol local --socket $socketPath --no-color &

if [ -e $socketPath ]; then
  echoerr "socket file exists"
fi

echoerr "Waiting for connection..."

wait_file "$socketPath" 30 || {
  echoerr "BSP socket file missing after waiting for 30 seconds: '$socketPath'"
  exit 1
}

nc -U $socketPath

thanks, updated the gist

I have built a new version of this which uses bloop-rife under the hood. So you dont really need to install bloop. Please give it a go and test it out: https://github.com/hamnis/embedded-bloop/releases/tag/v0.1.0 . I have made native-images for most useful platforms.