Setting up the EOS Blockchain

Tech Geek
2 min readNov 26, 2018

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This article enables you to setting up your system with EOSIO software installation. After this, one will be able to compile C++ contracts into ABI file and upload into the blockchain.

Installation

  • Cloning the github repository

$ git clone https://github.com/EOSIO/eos.git --recursive

$ cd eos

  • submodule check

$ git submodule update --init --recursive

  • Latest version

Goto — https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/releases/latest

It will take you to the latest release version page (e.g. v1.0.3, v1.0.2, v1.0.1, etc). Get the version no. from there.

$ git checkout tags/v1.0.3

  • Building the tools

$ ./eosio_build.sh

  • Boost
  • MAKE install

$ cd build

$ sudo make install

EOSIO system architecture

  • cleos

command line (CLI) tool for the EOS blockchain

  • nodeos

For interacting with the blockchain.

First, locate the ‘genesis.json’ file and then run the command.

  • keosd

For accessing the wallet

Now, you can continue with compiling contracts locally.

That’s it!!..

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Tech Geek
Tech Geek

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I’m a software developer from India, currently working with blockchain.

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