Volta should build with minimal effort. First, make sure you've got the dependencies installed.
- TinyCDB (http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html)
- GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make/)
- Lua (http://www.lua.org/)
If available, install these dependencies from your OS packaging system of choice.
Just type 'make'. Depending on your platform, GNU make may have been installed as 'gmake' If you get any errors, try 'gmake' first.
It should build without warnings.
Volta doesn't contain any installation targets. You can put the binary wherever makes sense on your system. Note that it should be in a directory that is writable to Squid, unless you plan to store the database separately. An example:
mv volta /usr/local/bin
mkdir -p /var/db/squid
chown squid:squid /var/db/squid
volta -f /var/db/squid/volta.db
I usually just drop it into the squid configuration directory and run it from there.
For usage information, see the README.
Volta source can be cloned via Mercurial. The repo can be found at:
http://code.martini.nu/volta (primary)
https://hg.sr.ht/~mahlon/volta (secondary)
https://github.com/mahlonsmith/volta (secondary)
You can use the 'debug' make target to compile a (very noisy) binary that contains gdb symbols and perftool hooks. Set the CPUPROFILE environment variable to "cpu.prof" to generate a profile.
If you're hacking, you'll want these dependencies installed too.
- ragel (http://www.complang.org/ragel/)
- mercurial (http://mercurial.selenic.com/)
- google-perftools (http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/)
- graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org/)
- ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/)