Installation

Make sure to have enough free disk space for Rust compilation.

Windows users should use WSL and follow instructions for Linux.

Installation for Mac OS (Intel / M1 / M2)

Basics

• Xcode command line tools
  • xcode-select --install
• Homebrew
  • If possible, install in user land e.g. in $HOME/git/homebrew
  • See https://docs.brew.sh/Installation#untar-anywhere
• Rust
  • brew install rustup-init
  • rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
• Clang/LLVM
  • brew install llvm@18 then make sure to update your PATH as instructed.
• Protoc
  • brew install protobuf

Additional tooling required by tests

• brew install jq
• cargo install cargo-rdme
• cargo install taplo-cli
• cargo install cargo-all-features
• cargo install cargo-machete
• https://docs.docker.com/desktop/mac/install/

Installation for Linux

Basics

• Git
• Rust
  • curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
  • rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
• Protoc
  • curl -LO https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v21.11/protoc-21.11-linux-x86_64.zip
  • unzip protoc-21.11-linux-x86_64.zip -d $HOME/.local
  • If ~/.local is not in your path, add it: export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"

Alternatively, we have added experimental Nix support (see flake.nix).

Additional tooling required by tests

• sudo apt-get install jq
• cargo install cargo-rdme
• cargo install taplo-cli
• cargo install cargo-all-features
• cargo install cargo-machete
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Installation using Nix

Alternatively, this repository contains a Nix flake that can be used to prepare a reproducible development environment on Nix-enabled systems.

Nix runs on Linux systems (including the Windows Subsystem for Linux) and macOS.

If you don't have Nix installed, we recommend using the Determinate Nix installer to easily set up Nix with flakes support.

Alternatively, you can use the standard installer and follow the documentation to enable flakes manually.

Once Nix is installed, from the repository root, simply run

$ nix develop

to enter a development environment, and then run cargo build or cargo install normally.

If you have direnv installed, there is no need to manually run nix develop: instead, run direnv allow to automatically drop into the build environment when you enter the project directory.