Vesuvius, a Vulcan replacement

Build libraries on Heroku without pain.

Why Vesuvius?

Vulcan has been deprecated and GCC is only available at build time on heroku-16 stack.

Even with heroku run bash, compiling stuff on Heroku was painful, time consuming, and you needed a third-party cloud storage to move your compiled library in order to download it.

With Vesuvius, this is no longer the case. During the deploy, Vesuvius will run all scripts located in /scripts/libraries and will move output files to a public directory.

It comes with proj.4 and GEOS as examples.

Automatic Setup

Manual Setup

Clone the repo
Create a new Heroku application
Set your buildpack to Heroku's apt buildpack

heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-apt

Add Heroku's Ruby buildpack

heroku buildpacks:add heroku/ruby

Deploy and navigate to your application's root path.

Example script

All you need to do is create a bash script to compile your library and save it under the scripts/libraries folder.

This is an example for the GEOS library:

#!/bin/bash

LIBRARY_VERSION=3.8.1

curl -O http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-${LIBRARY_VERSION}.tar.bz2 \
  && tar -xjvf geos-${LIBRARY_VERSION}.tar.bz2 \
  && cd geos-${LIBRARY_VERSION} \
  && ./configure --prefix=${HEROKU_VENDOR_DIR} \
  && make && make install \
  && tar -C ${HEROKU_VENDOR_DIR} -czvf ${TARGET_DIR}/geos-${LIBRARY_VERSION}-heroku.tar.gz .

How to use the compiled libraries

Take a look at heroku-buildpack-vendorbinaries.

Authors

Geremia Taglialatela