Building the Scavenger daemon

I recently moved the development of Scavenger onto GitHub. In that process I created two build scripts: One for building the Scavenger daemon on a Linux or Mac machine, and another for building and installing the Scavenger library on the same platforms. In this post I will describe the installation of the Scavenger daemon.

In order to build the Scavenger daemon, you need to install a couple of dependencies. You need git, the gcc compiler and, in order to compile the Presence daemon used for discovery, you also need to install the Qt SDK. If you are on a Mac, getting gcc installed means that you should install Xcode and getting git installed can e.g., be done using MacPorts.

After having installed these dependencies building the Scavenger daemon is as simple of downloading and running the Mac script or the Linux script. The script should be downloaded to and run from the folder in which you would like to build the Scavenger daemon. When run it will download and build Stackless Python, checkout and build the relevant GitHub projects, and configure a Scavenger daemon instance.

After having successfully run the build script, you can start a Scavenger daemon instance by entering the scavenger_daemon directory and running the start_daemon.sh script.

If you have any questions about getting Scavenger to run on your system, please don't hesitate to contact me. The best thing to do is to leave a comment on this page, but you are also welcome to send me a mail.