diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 29791a5b50..bee177e3de 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
           docker exec wrench mkdir wrench/build;
           # build and test wrench
           docker exec -w /home/wrench/wrench/build wrench cmake -DENABLE_BATSCHED=${batsched} -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON ..;
-          docker exec -w /home/wrench/wrench/build wrench make all unit_tests examples;
+          docker exec -w /home/wrench/wrench/build wrench make all unit_tests examples wrench-daemon;
           docker exec -w /home/wrench/wrench/build wrench ./unit_tests;
           docker exec -w /home/wrench/wrench/build/examples wrench ./run_all_examples.sh wrench-example-batch-smpi-action;
 
diff --git a/examples/run_all_examples.sh.in b/examples/run_all_examples.sh.in
index 13e526d1b9..abb3fdf74c 100755
--- a/examples/run_all_examples.sh.in
+++ b/examples/run_all_examples.sh.in
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 #
 # Usage: run_all_examples [executable_to_exclude1,executable_to_exclude2,....]
 
-TO_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE="wrench-example-cloud-bag-of-tasks-energy"
+#TO_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE="wrench-example-cloud-bag-of-tasks-energy"
+TO_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=""
 
 TO_EXCLUDE="{$TO_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE},{$1}"
 
diff --git a/src/wrench/services/helper_services/action_execution_service/ActionExecutionService.cpp b/src/wrench/services/helper_services/action_execution_service/ActionExecutionService.cpp
index a7fe031c55..a6c52ca70a 100644
--- a/src/wrench/services/helper_services/action_execution_service/ActionExecutionService.cpp
+++ b/src/wrench/services/helper_services/action_execution_service/ActionExecutionService.cpp
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ namespace wrench {
 
         // Select the "best" host
         double lowest_load = DBL_MAX;
-        simgrid::s4u::Host *picked_host;
+        simgrid::s4u::Host *picked_host = nullptr;
         unsigned long picked_num_cores = 0;
         for (auto const &h: possible_hosts) {
             unsigned long num_running_threads = this->running_thread_counts[h];
diff --git a/tools/wrench/wrench-daemon/scripts/generate_crow_routes.py b/tools/wrench/wrench-daemon/scripts/generate_crow_routes.py
index a7f04c4f61..c7c2fb9d57 100755
--- a/tools/wrench/wrench-daemon/scripts/generate_crow_routes.py
+++ b/tools/wrench/wrench-daemon/scripts/generate_crow_routes.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import 
 import json
 import re
 import sys