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Building timelords
The Linux and MacOS chiavdf binary wheels currently exclude an executable required to run a Timelord. If you want to run a Timelord on Linux or MacOS, you must install the wheel from source (which may require some additional development packages) while in the virtual environment.
. ./activate
sh install-timelord.sh
If the compile fails, it's likely due to a missing dependency. install-timelord.sh attempts to install required build dependencies for Linux and MacOS before invoking pip to build from the source python distribution of chiavdf.
The install-timelord.sh install script leverages two environmental variables
that the chiavdf wheels can use to specify how to build. vdf_client is the
service that the Timelord uses to run the VDF and prove the Proof of Time.
vdf_bench is a utility to get a sense of a given CPU's iterations per second.
- To build vdf_client set the environment variable BUILD_VDF_CLIENT to "Y".
export BUILD_VDF_CLIENT=Y. - Similarly, to build vdf_bench set the environment variable BUILD_VDF_BENCH
to "Y".
export BUILD_VDF_BENCH=Y.
Building and running Timelords in Windows x86-64 is not yet supported.