mirror of
https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
synced 2024-11-20 02:27:51 +01:00
744d657860
Like many I don't read any documentation besides the readme in the repo, so I thought I could just pull some simple getting started info into the readme to make it easy for people to get started :-)
1.7 KiB
1.7 KiB
Library Requirements
You will need several development libraries:
- libprotoc: the Google protocol buffer v2 library, 2.6.0 or above.
- protobuf-c: version 1.1.0 or above.
- libsqlite3: for database support.
- libgmp: for secp256k1
For actually doing development and running the tests, you will also need:
- pip3: to install python-bitcoinlib
- asciidoc: for formatting the man pages (if you change them)
- valgrind: for extra debugging checks
You will also need a version of bitcoind with segregated witness support, such as the 0.13 or above.
To Build on Ubuntu 16.04
Get dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -y autoconf build-essential git libtool libprotobuf-c-dev libgmp-dev libsqlite3-dev python3
For development or running tests, get additional dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -y asciidoc valgrind python3-pip && pip3 install python-bitcoinlib
Clone lightning:
git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
cd lightning
Build lightning:
make
Running lightning:
bitcoind
./daemon/lightningd
./daemon/lightning-cli help
Note: You may need to include testnet=1 in bitcoin.conf
To Build on Ubuntu 15.10
Build protobuf-c dependency (>= 1.1.0):
sudo apt-get install libprotoc-dev
git clone https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c.git
cd protobuf-c
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
cd ../
Clone lightning:
git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
cd lighting
Build lightning:
make
Running lightning:
bitcoind
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
./daemon/lightningd
./daemon/lightning-cli help