Building Steem for the Testnet

in #steem8 years ago


Good morning my fellow Steemers!

I've seen many users start working on some reall nice applications that are built on top of the Steem blockchain and I thought that I would put out a short guide explaining how easy it is to setup a node on the testnet so you can test your application without spamming the main chain.

Building Steem for the testnet

First I'm going to assume that you have a clean install of Ubuntu ready to go. For windows users, you can follow the following article in order to install ubuntu via virtual box:
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Ubuntu-on-VirtualBox

  • Login to Ubuntu
  • Update the default package list:
sudo apt-get update

  • Install required dependencies
sudo apt-get install git cmake g++ python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev build-essential libbz2-dev libboost-all-dev libssl-dev libncurses5-dev doxygen libreadline-dev dh-autoreconf

  • Download and build Boost 1.60.0
wget -O boost_1_60_0.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.60.0/boost_1_60_0.tar.gz/download
tar xzvf boost_1_60_0.tar.gz
cd boost_1_60_0
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local
./b2 install
cd

  • Build and istall secp256k1
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/secp256k1
cd secp256k1
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
./tests
cd

  • Configure Steem for the testnet
git clone https://github.com/steemit/steem
cd steem
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_CONTENT_PATCHING=OFF -DLOW_MEMORY_NODE=ON -DBUILD_STEEM_TESTNET=true

You should see an output line that reads:

--

             CONFIGURED FOR TEST NETWORK


--

  • Build Steem
make

  • Start your node
cd programs/steemd
./steemd --rpc-endpoint

Congratulations you should now be able to connect to your node via RPC.

If anyone has a testnet node that I can list for people to connect to, please mention them in the comments so I can add it to the article.

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Awesome man, thanks for the detailed instructions!

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