Elastos Carrier boostrap daemon is a basic service to help new node join and bootstrap the Elastos Carrier network.

Currently, Linux is the only recommend platform to run the Elastos carrier boostrapd officially.

Run the following commands to install all pre-requirements.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake autopoint libtool bison texinfo

Change to the directory $(SRC_DIR)/build, and run the following command:

$ ./linux_build.sh

To build Debian (.deb) package, run command with "dist" option:

$ ./linux_build.sh dist

The generated Debian package' location is: $(SRC_DIR)/build/_dist/Linux-x86_64/[debug|release]/elastos_bootstrapd.deb

For more build options, run command with "help" option:

$ ./linux_build.sh help

Recommended target platform: Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS / x86_64

Copy generated Debian package (.deb file) to target machine. Then run following command to install Elastos Carrier bootstrap daemon:

$ sudo dpkg -i /path/to/elastos_bootstrapd.deb

After install complete, the bootstrap deamon will start automatically. You can run:

$ sudo systemctl status ela-bootstrapd

to check the service status. If the deamon started successful, the status should be active (running).

Reference: Man page for systemctl.

NOTICE:

After installed Elastos Carrier bootstrap deamon, you should modify /etc/elastos/bootstrapd.conf, update the bootstrap_nodes section according your deployment.

For convenience, you can develop Elastos Carrier boostrapd on MacOS for testing or debugging.

You need to install the following utility packages on your MacOS before build.

autoconf automake libtool shtool pkg-config gettext

Or, you can use brew command to install the packages:

brew install autoconf automake libtool shtool pkg-config gettext

Change to directory $(SRC_DIR)/build, and run the following command:

$ ./darwin_build.sh

For more build options, run build script with "help" option:

$ ./darwin_build.sh help

Elastos Carrier bootstrap daemon currently not support deploy on MacOS.