This repo still exists in archived form, feel free to fork any reference

implementations it still contains.

See Agave, the Solana validator implementation from Anza: https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave

$ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
$ source $HOME/.cargo/env
$ rustup component add rustfmt

When building the master branch, please make sure you are using the latest stable rust version by running:

$ rustup update

When building a specific release branch, you should check the rust version in ci/rust-version.sh and if necessary, install that version by running:

$ rustup install VERSION

Note that if this is not the latest rust version on your machine, cargo commands may require an override in order to use the correct version.

On Linux systems you may need to install libssl-dev, pkg-config, zlib1g-dev, protobuf etc.

On Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libudev-dev pkg-config zlib1g-dev llvm clang cmake make libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

On Fedora:

$ sudo dnf install openssl-devel systemd-devel pkg-config zlib-devel llvm clang cmake make protobuf-devel protobuf-compiler perl-core

$ git clone https://github.com/solana-labs/solana.git
$ cd solana

$ ./cargo build

Run the test suite:

$ ./cargo test

Start your own testnet locally, instructions are in the online docs.

• devnet - stable public cluster for development accessible via

  devnet.solana.com. Runs 24/7. Learn more about the public clusters

First, install the nightly build of rustc. cargo bench requires the use of the

unstable features only available in the nightly build.

$ rustup install nightly

Run the benchmarks:

$ cargo +nightly bench

The release process for this project is described here.

To generate code coverage statistics:

$ scripts/coverage.sh
$ open target/cov/lcov-local/index.html

Why coverage? While most see coverage as a code quality metric, we see it primarily as a developer

productivity metric. When a developer makes a change to the codebase, presumably it's a solution to

some problem. Our unit-test suite is how we encode the set of problems the codebase solves. Running

the test suite should indicate that your change didn't infringe on anyone else's solutions. Adding a

test protects your solution from future changes. Say you don't understand why a line of code exists,

try deleting it and running the unit-tests. The nearest test failure should tell you what problem

was solved by that code. If no test fails, go ahead and submit a Pull Request that asks, "what

problem is solved by this code?" On the other hand, if a test does fail and you can think of a

better way to solve the same problem, a Pull Request with your solution would most certainly be

welcome! Likewise, if rewriting a test can better communicate what code it's protecting, please

send us that patch!

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