You need to have Go (and git) installed to compile and run the daemon.
brew install git
These are some condensed steps which will get you started quickly, but we recommend following the installation steps at https://golang.org/doc/install.
Use brew to install Go 1.11:
brew install [email protected]
Go may also be installed following the directions at https://golang.org/doc/install.
Note: OpenBazaar has not been tested with v1.11 and may cause problems
Create a directory to store all your Go projects (below we just put the directory in our home directory but you can use any directory you want).
mkdir $HOME/go
Set that directory as your go path:
Edit .profile in your home directory and append the following to the end of the file (if you used a different go directory make sure to change it below):
echo "export GOPATH=$HOME/go" >> .profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> .profile
Then run:
source ~/.profile
Go should now be ready.
Checkout a copy of the source:
go get github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
It will use git to checkout the source code into $GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
Checkout a release version:
git checkout v0.13.8
Note: go get leaves the repo pointing at master which is a branch used for active development. Running OpenBazaar from master is NOT recommended. Check the release versions for the available versions that you use in checkout.
To compile and run the source:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
go run openbazaard.go start
NOTE: If you have Xcode installed you may get the response signal: killed. If you do try running the following instead.
go run --ldflags -s openbazaard.go start -t
NOTE FOR NEW GOLANG HACKERS:
In most projects you usually perform a git clone of the repository in order to start hacking.
With openbazaar-go There's no need to manually git clone the project, this is done for you when you issue the go get github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go command, doing a manual git clone will only give you a repository that's missing a lot of recursive dependencies and building headaches.
If you are used to having all your other projects in some other place on disk, just make a symlink from $GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go into your usual workspace folder.
To start hacking make sure to add your git remote into the $GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go folder with:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
git remote add myusername [email protected]:myusername/openbazaar-go.git