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Dave Wallace edited this page Apr 11, 2026 · 1 revision

Prerequisites

Building Honeycomb project requires:

  • Java 8
  • Maven (version 3.2.5 and above should be fine)
  • Properly set maven settings(displayed below) to access nexus.fd.io

Obtain the honeycomb source code

Make sure you have registered your ssh key with gerrit.


git clone ssh://[username]@gerrit.fd.io:29418/honeycomb
cd honeycomb
git checkout stable/1609

Building the code

Make sure all the prerequisites are installed.

To make sure fresh Honeycomb build is compatible with VPP, building VPP is also required to make sure the same JVpp version is used preventing out-of-sync exceptions. In case only Honeycomb needs to be built, skip Building VPP section.

Building VPP

Clone VPP according to: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/admin/projects/vpp and checkout to stable/1609 branch

Dive into VPP's build-root folder:

cd vpp/build-root/

Build VPP:

make distclean && ./bootstrap.sh && make V=0 PLATFORM=vpp TAG=vpp install-deb

Install VPP:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Start VPP:

sudo start vpp

**Install JVpp into local maven repository to make Honeycomb pick up the same JVpp version **

cd build-vpp-native/vpp-api/java/
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=jvpp-registry-16.09.jar -DgroupId=io.fd.vpp     -DartifactId=jvpp-registry -Dversion=16.09 -Dpackaging=jar
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=jvpp-core-16.09.jar -DgroupId=io.fd.vpp     -DartifactId=jvpp-core -Dversion=16.09 -Dpackaging=jar

Now current Vpp is up and running.

Building Honeycomb

Now Honeycomb can be built and it will use latest JVpp produced during VPP build.

Setup settings.xml

Put the following in your ~/.m2/settings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- vi: set et smarttab sw=2 tabstop=2: -->
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>fd.io-release</id>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>fd.io-mirror</id>
          <name>fd.io-mirror</name>
          <url>https://nexus.fd.io/content/groups/public/</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>fd.io-mirror</id>
          <name>fd.io-mirror</name>
          <url>https://nexus.fd.io/content/repositories/public/</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>

    <profile>
      <id>fd.io-snapshots</id>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>fd.io-snapshot</id>
          <name>fd.io-snapshot</name>
          <url>https://nexus.fd.io/content/repositories/fd.io.snapshot/</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>fd.io-snapshot</id>
          <name>fd.io-snapshot</name>
          <url>https://nexus.fd.io/content/repositories/fd.io.snapshot/</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
    <profile>
      <id>opendaylight-snapshots</id>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>opendaylight-snapshot</id>
          <name>opendaylight-snapshot</name>
          <url>https://nexus.opendaylight.org/content/repositories/opendaylight.snapshot/</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>opendaylight-shapshot</id>
          <name>opendaylight-snapshot</name>
          <url>https://nexus.opendaylight.org/content/repositories/opendaylight.snapshot/</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>fd.io-release</activeProfile>
    <activeProfile>fd.io-snapshots</activeProfile>
    <activeProfile>opendaylight-snapshots</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
</settings>

Building Honeycomb

cd honeycomb/
mvn clean install

Now Honeycomb can be run with:

sudo sh vpp-integration/minimal-distribution/target/vpp-integration-distribution-1.16.9-SNAPSHOT-hc/vpp-integration-distribution-1.16.9-SNAPSHOT/honeycomb

Building packages

After the code has been built, you can build an RPM or DEB package for honeycomb.

RPM

Export build number variable:

 export BUILD_NUMBER=33

Run package building script from:

 packaging/rpm/rpmbuild.sh

DEB

Export build number variable:

 export BUILD_NUMBER=33

Run package building script from:

 packaging/deb/debuild.sh

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