AVA is an incredibly lightweight protocol, so the minimum computer requirements are quite modest.
- Hardware: 2 GHz or faster CPU, 3 GB RAM, 250 MB hard disk.
- OS: Ubuntu >= 18.04 or Mac OS X >= Catalina.
- Software: Go version >= 1.13.X and set up
$GOPATH. - Network: IPv4 or IPv6 network connection, with an open public port.
Ubuntu users need the following libraries:
- libssl-dev
- libuv1-dev
- cmake
- make
- curl
- g++
Install the libraries:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libuv1-dev cmake make curl g++Clone the Gecko repository:
go get -v -d github.com/ava-labs/gecko/...
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ava-labs/geckoBuild Gecko using the build script:
./scripts/build.shThe Gecko binary, named ava, is in the build directory.
- Make sure you have docker installed on your machine (so commands like
docker runetc. are available). - Build the docker image of latest gecko branch by
scripts/build_image.sh. - Check the built image by
docker image ls, you should see some image taggedgecko-xxxxxxxx, wherexxxxxxxxis the commit id of the Gecko source it was built from. - Test Gecko by
docker run -ti -p 9650:9650 -p 9651:9651 gecko-xxxxxxxx /gecko/build/ava --public-ip=127.0.0.1 --snow-sample-size=1 --snow-quorum-size=1 --staking-tls-enabled=false. (For a production deployment, you may want to extend the docker image with required credentials for staking and TLS.)
To create your own local test network, run:
./build/ava --public-ip=127.0.0.1 --snow-sample-size=1 --snow-quorum-size=1 --staking-tls-enabled=falseThis launches an AVA network with one node.
You should see some pretty ASCII art and log messages. You may see a few warnings. These are OK.
You can use Ctrl + C to kill the node.
If you want to specify your log level. You should set --log-level to one of the following values, in decreasing order of logging.
--log-level=verbo--log-level=debug--log-level=info--log-level=warn--log-level=error--log-level=fatal--log-level=off