Benson Box

Benson Box built on Substrate. For getting started and technical guides, please refer to the Benson Wiki.

Contributing

All PRs are welcome! Please follow our contributing guidelines here.

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Run with Docker

Use the latest Benson docker image to get started quickly

# Start a local validator on a development chain
$ docker run \
    -p 9933:9933 -p 9944:9944 \
    ng8eke/benson:latest \
    --dev \
    --unsafe-ws-external \
    --unsafe-rpc-external

Run from Source

Follow the steps to build and run a Benson Box from the source code.

1) Set up build environment

For Linux (the example below is for Debian-based machines):

$ sudo apt install -y build-essential clang cmake gcc git libclang-dev libssl-dev pkg-config

For MacOS (via Homebrew):

$ brew install openssl cmake llvm

2) Install Rust

Install Rust on your machine through here, and the following rust version and toolchains.

$ cargo --version
$ rustup install nightly
$ rustup target add --toolchain=nightly wasm32-unknown-unknown

3) Build and Run

Clone the repo, build the binary and run it.

$ git clone https://github.com/ng8eke/benson.git
$ cd benson
$ cargo build --release # or remove  '--release' for quick debug build
$ ./target/release/benson --help

# start a validator node for development
$ ./target/release/benson --dev

Build Docker Image

Prepare your docker engine, and make sure it is running.

# To use the default image name and tag
$ make 

# To custom your image name and tag
$ IMAGE_NAME='benson' IMAGE_TAG='v1.5.1' DOCKER_BUILD_ARGS='--no-cache --quiet' make build

# Without using make
$ docker build --no-cache -t benson:v1.5.1 .