Building the Software

About

Jito-Solana is open source and completely permissionless. Currently, the client doesn't have a build pipeline for downloading images directly. We are working on this, but in the meantime please follow the commands below.

Computer Setup

One must install the rust compiler and a few related packages before building jito-solana.

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
rustup component add rustfmt
rustup update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libudev-dev pkg-config zlib1g-dev llvm clang cmake make libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

Versions

Mainnet or Testnet:

export TAG=v1.XX.XX-jito

Above is the generic syntax -- would be export TAG=v1.16.17-jito for a specific version. Please see the Github release page for current releases and notes (link).

Building

Make sure that you've run the export TAG= section above.

The following will build jito-solana from source and install it at the path: ~/.local/share/solana/install/releases/$TAG/bin/solana-validator

Initial Setup

git clone https://github.com/jito-foundation/jito-solana.git --recurse-submodules
cd jito-solana
git checkout tags/$TAG
git submodule update --init --recursive

CI_COMMIT=$(git rev-parse HEAD) scripts/cargo-install-all.sh --validator-only ~/.local/share/solana/install/releases/"$TAG"

Upgrading

cd jito-solana
git pull
git checkout tags/$TAG
git submodule update --init --recursive
CI_COMMIT=$(git rev-parse HEAD) scripts/cargo-install-all.sh --validator-only ~/.local/share/solana/install/releases/"$TAG"

Local Testing

Run a local validator for testing without any configuration. RPC is available on http://localhost:8899.

nohup ./start > faucet.log &
nohup ./bootstrap > validator.log &

# stop local validator with:
# pkill solana-faucet && pkill -f 'bash ./.*bootstrap'