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@ -26,12 +26,14 @@ _We currently do not guarantee that Nimbus will work on Windows._
### Prerequisites
(On Windows, a precompiled DLL collection download is available through the `fetch-dlls` Makefile target: ([Windows instructions](#windows)).)
#### Rocksdb
A recent version of Facebook's [RocksDB](https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/) is needed - it can usually be installed using a package manager of your choice:
A recent version of Facebook's [RocksDB](https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/) is needed - it can usually be installed using your system's package manager:
```bash
# MacOS
# MacOS with Homebrew
brew install rocksdb
# Fedora
@ -44,33 +46,32 @@ sudo apt-get install librocksdb-dev
pakku -S rocksdb
```
On Windows, you can [download pre-compiled DLLs](#windows).
You can also build and install it by following [their instructions](https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/INSTALL.md).
### PCRE
#### PCRE
If you don't already have it, you will also need PCRE to build Nimbus.
```bash
# MacOS
# MacOS with Homebrew
brew install pcre
# Fedora
dnf install pcre
# Debian and Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libpcre libpcre-dev
# Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libpcre-dev
# Debian
apt-get install libpcre3-dev
# Arch (AUR)
pakku -S pcre-static
pakku -S pcre-static
```
On Windows, the aforementioned DLL download will take care of this for you ([download pre-compiled DLLs](#windows)).
#### Developer tools
GNU make, Bash and the usual POSIX utilities
GNU Make, Bash and the usual POSIX utilities
#### Obtaining the prerequisites through the Nix package manager
@ -89,12 +90,16 @@ nix-shell default.nix
To build Nimbus (in "build/nimbus"), just execute:
```bash
make # the first invocation will update all Git submodules and prompt you to run "make" again
make # The first `make` invocation will update all Git submodules and prompt you to run `make` again.
# It's only required once per Git clone. You'll run `make update` after each `git pull`, in the future,
# to keep those submodules up to date.
make nimbus # build the Nimbus binary
```
Running `./build/nimbus --help` will provide you with a list of
the available command-line options. To start syncing with mainnet, just execute `./build/nimbus`
without any parameters.
Running `./build/nimbus --help` will provide you with a list of the available
command-line options. To start syncing with mainnet, just execute
`./build/nimbus` without any parameters.
To execute all tests:
```bash
@ -118,7 +123,7 @@ and for [pairing Nimbus with a locally running copy of Geth][2].
#### Windows
_Experimental support!_
_(Experimental support!)_
Install Mingw-w64 for your architecture using the "[MinGW-W64 Online
Installer](https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/)" (first link
@ -134,12 +139,16 @@ Install [Git for Windows](https://gitforwindows.org/) and use a "Git Bash" shell
If you don't want to compile RocksDB and SQLite separately, you can fetch pre-compiled DLLs with:
```bash
mingw32-make # this first invocation will update the Git submodules
mingw32-make fetch-dlls
mingw32-make fetch-dlls # this will place the right DLLs for your architecture in the "build/" directory
```
This will place the right DLLs for your architecture in the "build/" directory.
You can now follow those instructions in the previous section by replacing `make` with `mingw32-make` (regardless of your 32-bit or 64-bit architecture):
You can now follow those instructions in the previous section by replacing `make` with `mingw32-make` (regardless of your 32-bit or 64-bit architecture).
```bash
mingw32-make nimbus # build the Nimbus binary
mingw32-make test # run the test suite
# etc.
```
#### Raspberry PI