📦 Installation

Lighthouse runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. Installation should be easy. In fact, if you already have Rust installed all you need is:

git clone https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse.git
cd lighthouse
make

If this doesn't work or is not clear enough, see the Detailed Instructions. If you have further issues, see Troubleshooting. If you'd prefer to use Docker, see the Docker Guide.

Detailed Instructions

Install Rust and Cargo with rustup.
- Use the stable toolchain (it's the default).
Clone the Lighthouse repository.
- Run $ git clone https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse.git
- Change into the newly created directory with $ cd lighthouse
Build Lighthouse with $ make.
Installation was successful if $ lighthouse --help displays the command-line documentation.

First time compilation may take several minutes. If you experience any failures, please reach out on discord or create an issue.

Troubleshooting

Dependencies (Ubuntu)

Several dependencies may be required to compile Lighthouse. The following packages may be required in addition a base Ubuntu Server installation:

sudo apt install -y git gcc g++ make cmake pkg-config libssl-dev

Command is not found

Lighthouse will be installed to CARGO_HOME or $HOME/.cargo. This directory needs to be on your PATH before you can run $ lighthouse.

See "Configuring the PATH environment variable" (rust-lang.org) for more information.

Compilation error

Make sure you are running the latest version of Rust. If you have installed Rust using rustup, simply type $ rustup update.

OpenSSL

If you get a build failure relating to OpenSSL, try installing openssl-dev or libssl-dev using your OS package manager.

Ubuntu: $ apt-get install libssl-dev.
Amazon Linux: $ yum install openssl-devel.

Perl for Windows

Perl may also be required to build Lighthouse. You can install Strawberry Perl, or alternatively if you're using the Chocolatey package manager for Windows, use the following choco install command: choco install strawberryperl.

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