After installing slither the command "slither ." doesn't run and giving errors

[roudra323]

This is my directory structure:

And this gives assurance that I have slither installed in my system:

If I run the command slither . , I get error :

PS D:\BlockChain\Dapps\smart-contract-testing> slither .
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\slither\__main__.py", line 814, in main_impl
    ) = process_all(filename, args, detector_classes, printer_classes)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\slither\__main__.py", line 91, in process_all
    compilations = compile_all(target, **vars(args))
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\crytic_compile.py", line 667, in compile_all
    compilations.append(CryticCompile(filename, **kwargs))
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\crytic_compile.py", line 131, in __init__
    self._compile(**kwargs)
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\crytic_compile.py", line 553, in _compile
    self._platform.compile(self, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\platform\solc.py", line 149, in compile
    targets_json = _get_targets_json(compilation_unit, self._target, **kwargs)
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\platform\solc.py", line 278, in _get_targets_json
    return _run_solc(
           ^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\platform\solc.py", line 483, in _run_solc
    raise InvalidCompilation(
crytic_compile.platform.exceptions.InvalidCompilation: . is a directory. Expected a Solidity file when not using a compilation framework.
ERROR:root:Error in .
ERROR:root:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\slither\__main__.py", line 814, in main_impl
    ) = process_all(filename, args, detector_classes, printer_classes)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\slither\__main__.py", line 91, in process_all
    compilations = compile_all(target, **vars(args))
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\crytic_compile.py", line 667, in compile_all
    compilations.append(CryticCompile(filename, **kwargs))
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\crytic_compile.py", line 131, in __init__
    self._compile(**kwargs)
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\crytic_compile.py", line 553, in _compile
    self._platform.compile(self, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\platform\solc.py", line 149, in compile
    targets_json = _get_targets_json(compilation_unit, self._target, **kwargs)
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\platform\solc.py", line 278, in _get_targets_json
    return _run_solc(
           ^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\crytic_compile\platform\solc.py", line 483, in _run_solc
    raise InvalidCompilation(
crytic_compile.platform.exceptions.InvalidCompilation: . is a directory. Expected a Solidity file when not using a compilation framework.

But the slither contracts/Lock.sol works just fine. If I have the openzeeplin dependencies then the approach doesn't work ofc.
What is wrong with slither . command ?

Versions:

python 3.11.0
slither 0.9.5
hardhat ^2.16.1

[elopez]

Hi, and thanks for the question! crytic-compile expects hardhat projects to have a hardhat.config.js or hardhat.config.ts config file, but you have a different extension, hardhat.config.cjs, which appears to have been added recently to hardhat. I'll create an issue to track this in crytic-compile, but in the meantime you can use slither . --compile-force-framework hardhat to force the use of hardhat.

[roudra323]

Yea the slither . --compile-force-framework hardhat works just fine. Thanks for the help.