diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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index 00000000000..85b13d07ff9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+language: c
+compiler:
+  - gcc
+  - clang
+
+before_install: ./.travis/prepare.sh
+
+env:
+  - OPTS="--disable-ssl"
+  - TESTSUITE=1 KERNEL=1 OPTS="--with-linux=./linux-3.14.7"
+  - KERNEL=1 DPDK=1 OPTS="--with-dpdk=./dpdk-1.7.0
+
+script: ./.travis/build.sh $OPTS
diff --git a/.travis/build.sh b/.travis/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..e9bb9e26f89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+KERNELSRC=""
+
+function install_kernel()
+{
+    wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.14.7.tar.gz \
+    && tar xzvf linux-3.14.7.tar.gz > /dev/null \
+    && cd linux-3.14.7 \
+    && make allmodconfig \
+    && make net/openvswitch/ \
+    && KERNELSRC=$(pwd) \
+    && echo "Installed kernel source in $(pwd)" \
+    && cd ..
+
+    [ $? != 0 ] && exit 1
+}
+
+function install_dpdk()
+{
+    wget http://www.dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-1.7.0.tar.gz \
+    && tar xzvf dpdk-1.7.0.tar.gz > /dev/null \
+    && cd dpdk-1.7.0 \
+    && find ./ -type f | xargs sed -i 's/max-inline-insns-single=100/max-inline-insns-single=400/' \
+    && make config CC=gcc T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc \
+    && make CC=gcc RTE_KERNELDIR=$KERNELSRC \
+    && sudo make install CC=gcc T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc RTE_KERNELDIR=$KERNELSRC \
+    && echo "Installed DPDK source in $(pwd)" \
+    && cd ..
+
+    [ $? != 0 ] && exit 1
+}
+
+function configure_ovs()
+{
+    ./boot.sh && ./configure $*
+    [ $? != 0 ] && exit 1
+}
+
+if [ "$KERNEL" ] || [ "$DPDK" ]; then
+    install_kernel
+fi
+
+[ "$DPDK" ] && install_dpdk
+
+configure_ovs $*
+
+if [ $CC = "clang" ]; then
+    make CFLAGS="-Werror -Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument"
+else
+    make CFLAGS="-Werror" C=1 || exit 1
+    [ "$TESTSUITE" ] && make check
+fi
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/.travis/prepare.sh b/.travis/prepare.sh
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index 00000000000..6b5df002984
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis/prepare.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+sudo apt-get update -qq
+sudo apt-get install -qq libssl-dev llvm-dev
+
+wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/sparse-0.5.0.tar.gz
+tar -xzvf sparse-0.5.0.tar.gz
+cd sparse-0.5.0 && make && sudo make install PREFIX=/usr && cd ..
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index eb5810142ad..b64fb620300 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	README-lisp \
 	REPORTING-BUGS \
 	TODO \
+	.travis.yml \
+	.travis/build.sh \
+	.travis/prepare.sh \
 	WHY-OVS \
 	boot.sh \
 	build-aux/cccl \