OpenBgpd

Hello,

        i'm a young reseacher working on bgp improvement in Cloud. i'm
searching for an implementation that  i can use it in researches. my question
is either it's possibl to modify the code and compiling it with gcc and then
execute it as normal process or not. i would like to ask about documentation
and persons i can contact to help me about that.
Thnaks
K.sidali