Installation Instructions

Once all the prerequisites are installed, extract the Boost into a folder, note the location, and run the following command to ensure that your BOOST_ROOT environment points to the directory created by the Boost installation:

    cd /LOCATION/OF/YOUR/BOOST/DIRECTORY./bootstrap.sh./b2 cxxflags="-std=c++14"

Then, edit below code with your Boost directory location and run to add Boost environment variable to your .bash_profile file so it’s automatically set when you log in.

    echo "export BOOST_ROOT=/Users/my_user/boost_1_71_0" >> ~/.bash_profile

If you updated your .bash_profile file in the previous step, be sure to source it in a new Terminal window. For example:

    source .bash_profile

After that, run the following command to clone the app

        git clone git@github.com:ripple/rippled.git

For the latest stable release, use the master branch.

    cd rippledgit checkout master

Now, in the root directory, run the following commands:

    mkdir my_buildcd my_build

Now, generate the build by running the following comands:

    cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..

Then, run the build using CMake. This could take about 10 minutes

    cmake --build . -- -j 4 

 rippled requires the rippled.cfg config file to run. You can find an example config file, rippled-example.cfg in rippled/cfg. Make a copy and save it as rippled.cfg in a location that enables you to run rippled as a non-root user. Access the rippled directory and run:

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/ripple  
`cp cfg/rippled-example.cfg $HOME/.config/ripple/rippled.cfg`

Edit rippled.cfg to set necessary file paths. The user you plan to run rippled as must have write permissions to all of the paths you specify here.

Set the [node_db], [database_path] and [debug_logfile]

Rippled requires the validators.txt file to run. You can find an example validators file, validators-example.txt, in rippled/cfg/. Make a copy and save it as validators.txt in the same folder as your rippled.cfg file. Access the rippled directory and run:

    cp cfg/validators-example.txt $HOME/.config/ripple/validators.txt

Finally, access your build directory and start this distributed infrastructure rippled with the following command:

     ./rippled