Ethereum Go Client, by Jeffrey Wilcke (and some other people).
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The following builds are build automatically by our build servers after each push to the develop branch.
For prerequisites and detailed build instructions please read the Installation Instructions on the wiki.
Building geth requires two external dependencies, Go and GMP. You can install them using your favourite package manager. Once the dependencies are installed, run
make geth
Go Ethereum comes with several wrappers/executables found in
the cmd
directory:
geth
Ethereum CLI (ethereum command line interface client)bootnode
runs a bootstrap node for the Discovery Protocolethtest
test tool which runs with the tests suite:/path/to/test.json > ethtest --test BlockTests --stdin
.evm
is a generic Ethereum Virtual Machine:evm -code 60ff60ff -gas 10000 -price 0 -dump
. See-h
for a detailed description.disasm
disassembles EVM code:echo "6001" | disasm
rlpdump
prints RLP structures
geth
can be configured via command line options, environment variables and config files.
To get the options available:
geth --help
For further details on options, see the wiki
If you'd like to contribute to go-ethereum please fork, fix, commit and
send a pull request. Commits who do not comply with the coding standards
are ignored (use gofmt!). If you send pull requests make absolute sure that you
commit on the develop
branch and that you do not merge to master.
Commits that are directly based on master are simply ignored.
See Developers' Guide for more details on configuring your environment, testing, and dependency management.