Developer Environment Installation¶

You’ve decided to help add to the Cyrus project, excellent!

These instructions are based on Debian 8.0 because it has to be based on something. Other Linux distributions will be similar in the broad ideas but may differ in the specifics. If you already have a preferred distro, use that (we assume you know how to use its package management system). If you don’t already have a preferred distro, maybe consider using Debian.

Cyrus¶

Fetching Cyrus¶

You’ll need access to the cyrus-imapd git repository.

You’ll need a public key. If you don’t already have a ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, then create one with ssh-keygen(1).
- Use the GitHub guide, following steps 1-3
Login to Phabricator
- Go to the SSH Keys settings panel.
- Click Upload public key
- Paste the contents of your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (n.b. NOT ~/.ssh/id_rsa!) into the public key box.
- Give it a descriptive name and click Upload
Install git if you don’t already have it:
- sudo apt-get install git
Clone the cyrus-imapd repository (you can get this URL from the Diffusion app within Phabricator):
- If you are a member of IMAP Committers, use git clone ssh://git@git.cyrus.foundation/diffusion/I/cyrus-imapd.git
- If you aren’t (yet), use git clone https://git.cyrus.foundation/diffusion/I/cyrus-imapd.git

Setting up dependencies¶

Install tools for building
- sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config bison flex valgrind
Install dependencies for master branch
- sudo apt-get install libjansson-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev libical-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev libopendkim-dev libcunit1-dev libpcre3-dev uuid-dev
Additional dependencies for cyrus-imapd-2.5: you’ll need the -dev package to match whichever version of libdb you already have installed (assuming it’s probably already installed). On Debian 8.0, libdb5.3-dev is needed, but libdb5.1-dev on 7.8.
Install dependencies for building the docs.
- sudo pip install python-sphinx
- sudo cpan install Pod::POM::View::Restructured

Compile Cyrus¶

There are additional compile and installation steps if you are using Xapian for searching.

cd /path/to/cyrus-imapd

autoreconf -i -s   # generates a configure script, and its various dependencies

./configure CFLAGS="-W -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O0 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -fPIC" \
--enable-coverage --enable-calalarmd --enable-apple-push-service --enable-autocreate \
--enable-nntp --enable-http --enable-unit-tests \
--enable-replication --with-openssl=yes --enable-nntp --enable-murder \
--enable-idled --enable-event-notification --enable-sieve --prefix=/usr/cyrus

make lex-fix   # you need this if compile fails with errors from sieve/sieve.c

make

make check

make install  # optional if you're just developing on this machine

make install-binsymlinks    # Useful if you're testing older Cyrus versions

The --prefix option sets where Cyrus is installed to. Adjust to suit.

It may be of use to also add --std=gnu99 to the CFLAGS. That generates TONS of warnings.

You may see warnings regarding libical v2.0 being recommended to support certain functionality. Currently libical v1.0.1 is sufficient, unless you need/want RSCALE (non-gregorian recurrences), VPOLL (consensus scheduling), or VAVAILABILITY (specifying availability over time) functionality. If v2 is required, it will need to be installed from github.

Arcanist¶

Installing Arcanist¶

Arcanist is a tool for managing workflow (code review, etc), which sits between git and Phabricator.

Note

Conrad (@conradk) says: “Installing arcanist on Ubuntu was apparently as easy as sudo apt-get install arcanist. But, the folks over at arcanist say: “clone the code from GitHub.”

Install Arcanist
Set up Arcanist
- cd in to any of the GIT repositories (so that the ./.arcconfig file included in those has the upper hand for the next step)
- Link your local arc to Phabricator: arc install-certificate
Get familiar with the Arcanist workflow

Setting up syslog¶

A lot of Cyrus’s debugging information gets logged with syslog, so you’ll want to be able to capture it and find it later (especially when debugging cassandane tests)

Find the correct place to edit syslog config for your system (for me, I needed to create /etc/rsyslog.d/cyrus.conf)
Add lines like

local6.* /var/log/imapd.log

auth.debug /var/log/auth.log
Restart the rsyslog service

sudo /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart

Arrange to rotate /var/log/imapd.log so it doesn’t get stupendously large. Create /etc/logrotate.d/cyrus.conf with content like:

/etc/logrotate.d/cyrus.conf
/var/log/imapd.log
{
    rotate 4
    weekly
    missingok
    notifempty
    compress
    delaycompress
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
    invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
    endscript
}

Ready to get a basic server up and running now you’re all installed?

Cyrus IMAP