Elastos.ELA

Summary

Elacoin is the digital currency solution within Elastos eco system.

This project is the source code that can build a full node of ELA.

Build on Mac

Check OS version

Make sure the OSX version is 16.7+

$ uname -srm
Darwin 16.7.0 x86_64

Install Go distribution 1.9

Use Homebrew to install Golang 1.9.

$ brew install go@1.9

If you install older version, such as v1.8, you may get missing math/bits package error when build.

Setup basic workspace

In this instruction we use ~/dev/src as our working directory. If you clone the source code to a different directory, please make sure you change other environment variables accordingly (not recommended).

$ mkdir ~/dev/bin
$ mkdir ~/dev/src

Set correct environment variables.

export GOROOT=/usr/local/opt/go@1.9/libexec
export GOPATH=$HOME/dev
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$GOBIN:$PATH

Install Glide

Glide is a package manager for Golang. We use Glide to install dependent packages.

$ brew install --ignore-dependencies glide

Check Go version and glide version

Check the golang and glider version. Make sure they are the following version number or above.

$ go version
go version go1.9.2 darwin/amd64
 
$ glide --version
glide version 0.13.1

If you cannot see the version number, there must be something wrong when install.

Clone source code to $GOPATH/src folder

Make sure you are in the folder of $GOPATH/src

$ git clone https://github.com/elastos/Elastos.ELA.git

If clone works successfully, you should see folder structure like $GOPATH/src/Elastos.ELA/makefile

Glide install

Run glide update && glide install to install depandencies.

Make

Run make to build files.

If you did not see any error message, congratulations, you have made the ELA full node.

Run on Mac

• run ./node to run the node program.

Build on Ubuntu

Check OS version

Make sure your ubuntu version is 16.04+

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS \n \l

Install basic tools

$ sudo apt-get install -y git

Install Go distribution 1.9

$ sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gophers/archive
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt-get install -y golang-1.9-go

If you install older version, such as v1.8, you may get missing math/bits package error when build.

Setup basic workspace

In this instruction we use ~/dev/src as our working directory. If you clone the source code to a different directory, please make sure you change other environment variables accordingly (not recommended).

$ mkdir ~/dev/bin
$ mkdir ~/dev/src

Set correct environment variables.

export GOROOT=/usr/lib/go-1.9
export GOPATH=$HOME/dev
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$GOBIN:$PATH

Install Glide

Glide is a package manager for Golang. We use Glide to install dependent packages.

$ cd ~/dev
$ curl https://glide.sh/get | sh

Check Go version and glide version

Check the golang and glider version. Make sure they are the following version number or above.

$ go version
go version go1.9.2 linux/amd64
 
$ glide --version
glide version v0.13.1

If you cannot see the version number, there must be something wrong when install.

Clone source code to $GOPATH/src folder

Make sure you are in the folder of $GOPATH/src

$ git clone https://github.com/elastos/Elastos.ELA.git

If clone works successfully, you should see folder structure like $GOPATH/src/Elastos.ELA/makefile

Glide install

Run glide update && glide install to install depandencies.

Make

Run make to build files.

If you did not see any error message, congratulations, you have made the ELA full node.

Run on Ubuntu

• run ./node to run the node program.

Config the node

See the documentation about config.json