Emitting declaration files not working as expected

When trying to emit code, the configuration is not working as expected. I tried different ways of configuring the tsc compiler, but with varying results. In some cases no code is emitted at all, and I havent been able to output the declaration files.

test.ts:

        const config = {
            ...
        };
        const ast = new Ast(config);
        ast.addSourceFiles('spec/common/**/*.ts');
        ast.emit();

tsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es2015",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "declaration": true,
    "declarationDir": "spec/common/lib",
    "typeRoots": [
      "node_modules/@types"
    ],
    "lib": [
      "es2015"
    ],
    "outDir": "spec/common/lib",
    "sourceMap": true
  },
  "include": [
    "spec/common"
  ]
}

• When using the tsconfig.json:

        const config = {
            tsConfigFilePath: 'tsconfig.json',
            compilerOptions: {
                declarations: true,
            }
        };

In this case, the javascript and code mappings are outputted correctly to spec/common/lib. The declaration files are missing though.

• When using

        const config = {
            tsConfigFilePath: 'tsconfig.json',
            compilerOptions: {
                out: 'spec/common/lib',
                declarations: true,
            }
        };

In this case, nothing gets outputted.

• When omitting the declarations, nothing changes.
• When omitting the tsconfig, nothing gets outputted. This is when including as wel as when omitting the out: 'spec/common/lib'.

Tested on arch linux & windows 10 with:

• tsc 2.6.2
• node 8.9.2
• ts-simple-ast 0.92.0

Edit I failed to notice the upgrades from 1 to 3.2 in the last two weeks. The results seem to be the same, however.

[atasak]

Still not working… I have extracted a minimum (not-)working example from my project. Just run

npm install
npm run build
npm run run

the tests.ts file is located in spec/common and the output dir is set to spec/common/lib. In src/compiler/compiler/testschemer.ts, the line including the tsconfig is currently commented out. I cannot figure out what’s going wrong…

[dsherret]

Thanks, I just updated the docs! 😃

I see why they deprecated that compiler option now—too ambiguous.