This project requires the Rust compiler to be installed. Please visit https://rustup.rs/ for instructions.

The following dependencies are also required:

Users of Debian-based systems (e.g. Ubuntu) can simply run the following to install the required dependencies:

% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake wget pkg-config clang \
    libclang-dev llvm-dev libudev-dev libfreetype6-dev libexpat1-dev

To build the necessary binaries, we can just clone the repo, and use the provided Makefile to build the project. This will download the trusted setup params, and compile the source code.

% git clone https://github.com/darkrenaissance/darkfi
% cd darkfi/
% make

If you want to hack on the source code, make sure to read some introductory advice in the DarkFi book.

This will install the binaries on your system (/usr/local by default). The configuration files for the binaries are bundled with the binaries and contain sane defaults. You'll have to run each daemon once in order for them to spawn a config file, which you can then review.

% sudo make install

This will add the options auto completion of drk and darkfid.

% echo source $(pwd)/contrib/auto-complete >> ~/.bashrc

After the installation, you should have drk and darkfid binaries in /usr/local. Trying to run them once should place the configuration files in their respective path. Now we're ready to use the testnet.

In one terminal, start darkfid, which is the daemon that will communicate with the DarkFi network:

% darkfid -v

And in the other terminal, we can use the CLI interface to darkfid called drk:

% drk -h
drk 0.2.0
darkfi <[email protected]>
Anonymous. Uncensored. Sovereign.

USAGE:
    drk [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

OPTIONS:
    -c, --config <CONFIG>    Sets a custom config file
    -h, --help               Print help information
    -v                       Increase verbosity
    -V, --version            Print version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    deposit     Deposit clear tokens for Dark tokens
    features    Show what features the cashier supports
    hello       Say hello to the RPC
    help        Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    id          Get hexidecimal ID for token symbol
    transfer    Transfer Dark tokens to address
    wallet      Wallet operations
    withdraw    Withdraw Dark tokens for clear tokens

See the DarkFi book

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