What is the recommended way of importing MAX kernels from source instead of importing the versions installed by pixi?

To hack on them directly, our Bazel build system is what you’ll want to use to compile the kernel modules. For example, to build the nn module within a local modular checkout: ./bazelw build //max/kernels/src/nn and then to run unit tests against modifications in that module: ./bazelw test //max/…

@BradLarson Thank you! As soon as I managed to update the mojo version in my pixi environment to the latest one this worked like a charm by including export MODULAR_MOJO_MAX_IMPORT_PATH=[path]/modular/bazel-bin/

Importing MAX kernels from source

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Importing MAX kernels from source

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