rkapps

The rkapps directory (in usr/rkapps) is an empty project aside from the build.rs file. The build file contains the steps to clone and build a few different well-known programs (memcached, LevelDB, Redis etc.) that we use to test user-space and rumprt.

The checked-out program sources and binaries are placed in the following location as part of your build directory:

target/x86_64-nrk-none/<debug | release>/build/rkapps-$HASH/out/

The build for these programs can be a bit hard to understand. The following steps happen:

1. Clone the packages repo which has build instructions for different POSIX programs running on rumpkernels.
2. For each application that we want to build (enabled/disabled by feature flags): Run make in the respective directory. This will compile the application with the appropriate rumpkernel toolchain. The toolchain be found in a similar path inside the build directory: target/x86_64-nrk-none/<debug | release>/build/rumpkernel-$HASH
3. Linking binaries with vibrio which provides the low-level runtime for rumpkernels.

For more information on how to run rkapps applications, refer to the Benchmarking section.