Installing pcli
Installing the Rust toolchain
This requires that you install a recent (>= 1.73) stable version
of the Rust compiler, installation instructions for which you can find
here. Don’t forget to reload your shell so that
cargo
is available in your \$PATH
!
You can verify the rust compiler version by running rustc --version
which should indicate version 1.73 or later.
pcli
requires rustfmt
as part of the build process — depending on your
OS/install method for Rust, you may have to install that separately.
Installing build prerequisites
Linux
You may need to install some additional packages in order to build pcli
,
depending on your distribution. For a bare-bones Ubuntu installation, you can
run:
sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libssl-dev clang git-lfs
For a minimal Fedora/CentOS/RHEL image, you can run:
sudo dnf install openssl-devel clang git cargo rustfmt git-lfs
macOS
You may need to install the command-line developer tools if you have never done so:
xcode-select --install
You’ll also need to install Git LFS, which you can do via Homebrew:
brew install git-lfs
Making sure that git-lfs
is installed
Running git lfs install
will make sure that git-lfs is correctly installed on your machine.
Cloning the repository
Once you have installed the above tools, you can clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/penumbra-zone/penumbra
To build the version of pcli
compatible with the current testnet, navigate to
the penumbra folder, fetch the latest from the repository, and check out the
latest tag for the current
testnet:
cd penumbra && git fetch && git checkout v0.63.1
Building the pcli
client software
Then, build the pcli
tool using cargo
:
cargo build --release --bin pcli
Because you are building a work-in-progress version of the client, you may see compilation warnings, which you can safely ignore.