Building

Introduction

mtail is implemented in Go.

You will need to install Go 1.4 or higher.

Details

Clone the source from GitHub.

mtail uses make to build. Type make at the commandline to install all the dependencies, and then build mtail. This assumes that your Go environment is already set up.

Run the unit tests with make test, which invokes gotest.

The resulting binary will be in $GOPATH/bin.

Contributing

Please use gofmt to format your code before committing. Emacs' go-mode has a lovely gofmt-before-save function.

Troubleshooting

If make gives you the following error:

../github.com/google/mtail/vm/lexer.go:28: too many errors

Then run make in that dependency and run make again like such:

cd ../github.com/google/mtail
make
cd -
make