QRL Zond Testnet

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Installing on Mac ​

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Tested on MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 (Apple Silicon & Intel)

This page contains instructions for installing the Zond node on Mac.

Downloading binaries ​

The Zond node & PoS validator are available as pre-compiled binaries for some operating systems. The latest releases can be seen and downloaded from the go-zond releases page and qrysm releases page on GitHub.

Building from Source ​

Dependencies ​

The Zond node requires the following dependencies to be installed:

  • XCode command line tools (xcode-select –-install)
  • Golang v1.21 or later and 1.20.12

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gobrew is recommended to control go version on MacOS / Linux. Install with:
curl -sLk https://git.io/gobrew | sh - Follow the instructions to add gobrew to your path and confirm it is working with gobrew --version

Clone the Zond repositories ​

bash
git clone https://github.com/theQRL/go-zond.git
git clone https://github.com/theQRL/qrysm.git

Build go-zond (the Execution Engine) with Golang v1.21 or later ​

bash
gobrew use 1.21.5
cd go-zond/
make gzond
cp build/bin/gzond ../
cd ..

Build qrsym (Consensus Engine) with Golang v1.20 ​

bash
cd qrysm/
gobrew use 1.20.12
go build -o=../qrysmctl ./cmd/qrysmctl
go build -o=../beacon-chain ./cmd/beacon-chain
go build -o=../validator ./cmd/validator

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If using a system-wide installation of Golang, ensure v1.20 is available to build the Consensus Engine and specify the version when building:

bash
go install golang.org/dl/go1.20@latest
go1.20 download
go1.20 build -o=../qrysmctl.exe ./cmd/qrysmctl
go1.20 build -o=../beacon-chain.exe ./cmd/beacon-chain
go1.20 build -o=../validator.exe ./cmd/validator