I did some playing around with building my own first Kamailio module as a minor project of mine. I used ChatGPT to get the initial confidence boost and it gave surprisingly good answers and enough to get me started.

From: Daniel-Constantin Mierla via sr-users <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org>
Date: Thursday, 3 July 2025 at 09:45
To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org>
Cc: Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com>
Subject: [SR-Users] Re: kamailio module development setup

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Hello,

On 02.07.25 19:49, mohsen khashei via sr-users wrote:

Hi everyone.

I want to start development of an kamailio module. and I am wondering is the any tutorial about that and also what ide or other setup the other people use for this. sorry for begginer question and thanks for attention.

there is an old tutorial that could still be useful to read:

- https://www.kamailio.org/docs/kamailio-devel-guide/

Then I would look to some of the small modules (e.g., math for exporting functions to kamailio.cfg, alias_db for database interaction and module parameters, ...).

You can ask on sr-dev mailing list when you have some questions about the existing C code.

I use vim-gui variants (macvim or gvim) most of the time for development, because I got used to it for long time. I would say that these days VSCode would be a good, still simple, ide/code editor -- plenty of extensions for c development.

Cheers,
Daniel

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