Gemini Gaggle - A free crawler written in C++ with minimal libraries required

Dependencies

• OpenSSL
• SQLiteCpp (Git Submodule)

macOS

Make sure to have a basic CPP development set up with a compiler and CMake or Meson and ideally Ninja

brew install openssl

Linux

Make sure to have a basic CPP development set up with a compiler and CMake or Meson and ideally Ninja

sudo apt install libssl-dev

Windows

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Good luck

Building SQLiteCpp Dependency

I prefer to use Meson since its a little more user friendly than CMake. This will compile and install the SQLiteCpp library to your machine.

Pull submodule

git submodule update --init --recursive

Create build directory and move into it

cd SQLiteCpp
mkdir build
cd build

Generate build scripts, compile and install

• With Meson:

meson setup ../
meson compile
meson install

• With CMake:

cmake ../ -GNinja
ninja
ninja install

Building Gaggle-Gemini

Ensure all dependencies are compiled and installed then simply run

Create build directory and move into it

mkdir build
cd build

Generate build scripts, compile and install

• With CMake:

cmake ../ -GNinja
ninja
./gemini-gaggle

• With Meson:

meson setup ../
meson compile
./gemini-gaggle

Contributing

Feel free to contribute, however this is not a project that will be maintained regularly and is simply just for fun.