Installing Dependencies

To get started, make sure to setup all the prerequisite tools on your local machine (an installer has not yet been developed).

Install Rust

For an introduction to Rust, see the excellent Rust book.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
rustup component add rustfmt

See the solana docs for installation instructions. On macOS and Linux,

sh -c "$(curl -sSfL https://release.solana.com/v1.7.1/install)"

Program integration tests are run using Mocha.

npm install -g mocha

For now, we can use Cargo to install the CLI.

cargo install --git https://github.com/project-serum/anchor --tag v0.8.0 anchor-cli --locked

On Linux systems you may need to install additional dependencies if cargo install fails. On Ubuntu,

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install -y pkg-config build-essential libudev-dev

To install the JavaScript package.

npm install -g @project-serum/anchor

Make sure your NODE_PATH is set properly so that globally installed modules can be resolved.

Build tool	Version
Node.js	v11.0.0