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Machi developer environment prerequisites
- Machi requires an 64-bit variant of UNIX: OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, or Solaris machine is a standard developer environment for C and C++ applications (64-bit versions).
- You'll need the
git
source management utility. - You'll need the 64-bit Erlang/OTP 17 runtime environment. Please don't use earlier or later versions until we have a chance to fix the compilation warnings that versions R16B and 18 will trigger. Also, please verify that you are not using a 32-bit Erlang/OTP runtime package.
For git
and the Erlang runtime, please use your OS-specific
package manager to install these. If your package manager doesn't
have 64-bit Erlang/OTP version 17 available, then we recommend using the
precompiled packages available at Erlang Solutions.
Also, please verify that you have enough file descriptors available to
your user processes. The output of ulimit -n
should report at least
4,000 file descriptors available. If your limit is lower (a frequent
problem for OS X users), please increase it to at least 4,000.
Using Vagrant to set up a developer environment for Machi
The Machi source directory contains a Vagrantfile
for creating an
Ubuntu Linux-based virtual machine for compiling and running Machi.
This file is in the
$SRC_TOP/priv/humming-consensus-demo.vagrant
directory.
If used as-is, the virtual machine specification is modest.
- 1 virtual CPU
- 512MB virtual memory
- 768MB swap space
- 79GB sparse virtual disk image. After installing prerequisites and compiling Machi, the root file system uses approximately 2.7 GBytes.