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description: Building Pantheon from source code
Build from Source
Prerequisites
!!!important Pantheon requires Java 8+ to compile; earlier versions are not supported.
Running Locally
Running On Virtual Machine
Installation on Linux / Unix / Mac OS X
###Clone the Pantheon Repository
Clone the PegaSysEng/pantheon repo to your home directory (/home/<user>
):
git clone --recursive https://github.com/PegaSysEng/pantheon.git
Build Pantheon
After cloning, go to the pantheon
directory.
Build Pantheon with the Gradle wrapper gradlew
, omitting tests as follows:
./gradlew build -x test
Go to the distribution directory:
cd build/distributions/
Expand the distribution archive:
tar -xzf pantheon-<version>.tar.gz
Move to the expanded folder and display the Pantheon help to confirm installation.
cd pantheon-<version>/
bin/pantheon --help
!!! note "Linux Open File Limit"
If synchronizing to MainNet on Linux or other chains with large data requirements, increase the maximum number
of open files allowed using ulimit
. If the open files limit is not high enough, a Too many open files
RocksDB exception occurs.
Continue with Starting Pantheon.
Installation on Windows
!!!note Pantheon is currently supported only on 64-bit versions of Windows, and requires a 64-bit version of JDK/JRE. We recommend that you also remove any 32-bit JDK/JRE installations.
Install Pantheon
In Git bash, go to your working directory for repositories. Clone the PegaSysEng/pantheon
repo into this directory:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/PegaSysEng/pantheon
Build Pantheon
Go to the pantheon
directory:
cd pantheon
Open a Windows command prompt. Build Pantheon with the Gradle wrapper gradlew
, omitting tests as follows:
.\gradlew build -x test
!!!note
To run gradlew
, you must have the JAVA_HOME system variable set to the Java installation directory.
For example: JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_181
.
Go to the distribution directory:
cd build\distributions
Expand the distribution archive:
tar -xzf pantheon-<version>.tar.gz
Move to the expanded folder and display the Pantheon help to confirm installation.
cd pantheon-<version>
bin\pantheon --help
Continue with Starting Pantheon.
Installation on VM
You can run Pantheon on a virtual machine (VM) on a cloud service such as AWS or Azure, or locally using a VM manager such as VirtualBox.
If you set up your own VM locally using a VM manager such as VirtualBox, there are a few considerations:
-
Make sure that Intel Virtualization Technology (VTx) and Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) are enabled in BIOS settings.
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On Windows, you might need to disable Hyper-V in the Windows Feature list.
It is recommended that you create a VM with the following attributes:
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Memory Size: Set to 4096 (recommended)
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Create a virtual hard disk with at least 10 GB; 20 GB is recommended
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Virtual hard disk file type: VDI (if you need to share it with other apps, use VHD)
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(Optional) You can create a shared directory in order to copy block files or genesis files from the host computer to the VM. For details on how to create a shared directory, see "Share Folders" in Install Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox.