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XDS - X(cross) Development System Agent

XDS-agent is a client that should run on your local / user development machine when you use XDS.

This agent takes care, among others, of starting Syncthing tool to synchronize your project files from your local host to XDS build server machine or container (where xds-server is running).

SEE ALSO: xds-server, a web server used to remotely cross build applications.

Configuration

xds-agent configuration is driven by a JSON config file. The tarball mentioned in previous section includes this file with default settings.

Here is the logic to determine which conf file will be used:

  1. from command line option: --config myConfig.json
  2. $HOME/.xds/agent/agent-config.json file
  3. /etc/xds-agent/config.json file

Supported fields in configuration file are (all fields are optional and example below corresponds to the default values):

  • httpPort : http port of agent REST interface
  • logsDir : directory to store logs (eg. syncthing output)
  • xds-apikey : xds-agent api-key to use (always set value to “1234abcezam”)
  • syncthing.binDir : syncthing binaries directory (default: executable directory)
  • syncthing.home” : syncthing home directory (usually …/syncthing-config)
  • syncthing.gui-address : syncthing gui url (default http://localhost:8386)
  • syncthing.gui-apikey : syncthing api-key to use (default auto-generated)
{
    "httpPort": "8010",
    "logsDir": "/tmp/logs",
    "xds-apikey": "1234abcezam",
    "syncthing": {
        "binDir": ".",
        "home": "${HOME}/.xds/agent/syncthing-config",
        "gui-address": "http://localhost:8386",
        "gui-apikey": "1234abcezam",
    }
}

Note: environment variables are supported by using ${MY_VAR} syntax.

Start-up

Simply to start xds-agent executable

./xds-agent &

Note: if need be, you can increase log level by setting option --log <level>, supported level are: panic, fatal, error, warn, info, debug.

You can now use XDS dashboard and check that connection with xds-agent is up. (see also xds-server README)

Build xds-agent from scratch

Dependencies

Install and setup Go version 1.8 or higher to compile this tool.

Note: for Ubuntu, you can use a PPA, see https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Ubuntu

Building

Clone this repo into your $GOPATH/src/github.com/iotbzh and use delivered Makefile:

 mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/iotbzh
 cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/iotbzh
 git clone https://github.com/iotbzh/xds-agent.git
 cd xds-agent
 make all

And to install xds-agent (by default in /usr/local/bin):

make install

Note: Used DESTDIR to specify another install directory bash make install DESTDIR=$HOME/opt/xds-agent

Cross build

For example on a Linux machine to cross-build for Windows, just follow these steps.

The first time you need to install all the windows-amd64 standard packages on your system with

# List all supported OS / ARCH
go tool dist list

# Install all standard packages for another OS/ARCH (eg. windows amd64)
GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go install -v -a std

Then compile and package xds-agent using provided makefile

export GOOS=windows
export GOARCH=amd64
make all
make package