Building Hyperledger Fabric

The following instructions assume that you have already set up your development environment.

To build Hyperledger Fabric:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
make dist-clean all

Running the unit tests

Use the following sequence to run all unit tests

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
make unit-test

To run a subset of tests, set the TEST_PKGS environment variable. Specify a list of packages (separated by space), for example:

export TEST_PKGS="github.com/hyperledger/fabric/core/ledger/..."
make unit-test

To run a specific test use the -run RE flag where RE is a regular expression that matches the test case name. To run tests with verbose output use the -v flag. For example, to run the TestGetFoo test case, change to the directory containing the foo_test.go and call/execute

go test -v -run=TestGetFoo

Running Node.js Client SDK Unit Tests

You must also run the Node.js unit tests to ensure that the Node.js client SDK is not broken by your changes. To run the Node.js unit tests, follow the instructions here.

Building outside of Vagrant

It is possible to build the project and run peers outside of Vagrant. Generally speaking, one has to ‘translate’ the vagrant setup file to the platform of your choice.

Building on Z

To make building on Z easier and faster, this script is provided (which is similar to the setup file provided for vagrant). This script has been tested only on RHEL 7.2 and has some assumptions one might want to re-visit (firewall settings, development as root user, etc.). It is however sufficient for development in a personally-assigned VM instance.

To get started, from a freshly installed OS:

sudo su
yum install git
mkdir -p $HOME/git/src/github.com/hyperledger
cd $HOME/git/src/github.com/hyperledger
git clone http://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/fabric
source fabric/devenv/setupRHELonZ.sh

From this point, you can proceed as described above for the Vagrant development environment.

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
make peer unit-test

Building on Power Platform

Development and build on Power (ppc64le) systems is done outside of vagrant as outlined here. For ease of setting up the dev environment on Ubuntu, invoke this script as root. This script has been validated on Ubuntu 16.04 and assumes certain things (like, development system has OS repositories in place, firewall setting etc) and in general can be improvised further.

To get started on Power server installed with Ubuntu, first ensure you have properly setup your Host’s GOPATH environment variable. Then, execute the following commands to build the fabric code:

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger
git clone http://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/fabric
sudo ./fabric/devenv/setupUbuntuOnPPC64le.sh
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
make dist-clean all

Building on Centos 7

You will have to build CouchDB from source because there is no package available from the distribution. If you are planning a multi-orderer arrangement, you will also need to install Apache Kafka from source. Apache Kafka includes both Zookeeper and Kafka executables and supporting artifacts.

export GOPATH={directory of your choice}
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger
FABRIC=$GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric
git clone https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric $FABRIC
cd $FABRIC
git checkout master # <-- only if you want the master branch
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH
make native

If you are not trying to build for docker, you only need the natives.

Configuration

Configuration utilizes the viper and cobra libraries.

There is a core.yaml file that contains the configuration for the peer process. Many of the configuration settings can be overridden on the command line by setting ENV variables that match the configuration setting, but by prefixing with ‘CORE_’. For example, logging level manipulation through the environment is shown below:

CORE_PEER_LOGGING_LEVEL=CRITICAL peer