DEXON Consensus

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Go 1.10 or a newer version
• dep as dependency management

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/dexon-foundation/dexon-consensus.git
   cd dexon-consensus
   

2. Setup GOPATH, the GOPATH could be anywhere in the system. Here we use $HOME/go:

   export GOPATH=$HOME/go
   export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH
   

   You should write these settings to your .bashrc file.

3. Install go dependency management tool

   ./bin/install_tools.sh
   

4. Install all dependencies

   dep ensure
   

Run Unit Tests

make pre-submit

Simulation

Simulation with Nodes connected by HTTP

1. Setup the configuration under ./test.toml
2. Compile and install the cmd dexon-simulation

make

3. Run simulation:

dexcon-simulation -config test.toml -init

Simulation with test.Scheduler

1. Setup the configuration under ./test.toml
2. Compile and install the cmd dexon-simulation-with-scheduler

make

3. Run simulation with scheduler:

dexcon-simulation-with-scheduler -config test.toml