This Vagrantfile provisions a machine based on debian/jessie64 with all tools to build Elektra.

If Vagrant is installed on your machine change to the directory containing the file you are currently reading and build a box for vagrant with

$ vagrant up && vagrant package && vagrant box add buildelektra package.box && vagrant destroy -f

This will take some time, but when its done you have a new vagrantbox as you can verify with vagrant box list. Amongst your boxes you should see the box buildelektra.

You can now set up a new VM from this box easily: Enter a directory where you want to set up the VM

# enter a directory where you want to set up the VM
$ mkdir ~/vagrant/buildelektra && cd $_
# now you create a Vagrantfile ...
$ vagrant init buildelektra
# ... and start the VM
$ vagrant up

When the machine is running, access it with

$ vagrant ssh

In this SSH session you can interact with the machine.

By default Vagrant synchronizes the folder on the host machine containing the vagrantfile with the folder /vagrant in the VM. Therefore we will build a .deb package of Elektra in this folder.

# in the VM change to the synched folder
$ cd /vagrant
# build the commit with the tag "0.8.19"
$ sudo buildelektra -b elektra 0.8.19

When you are done leave the VM with CTRL-D. The folder should now contain the created .deb file.

You can either shut the VM down with vagrant halt or delete it with vagrant destroy.