Grin-wallet failing to compile in Ubuntu

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I’m trying to build the wallet (version 3.1.1) in Ubuntu 18.04 but my system is not producing a “grin-wallet” executable. Is there a step-by-step guide somewhere? The documentation available in the doc folder and on the github wiki doesn’t seem to address this [and I’d prefer to build the wallet on my system rather than download a binary].

Also, is the process described in tls-setup.md needed to build the wallet or get it communicating with the node?

The grin node/server seems to be working fine. I toyed around with 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 wallets sometime back but that was before grin-wallet was parceled-off into its own git repository.

I’m comfortable with the bash command-line but a rust newbie (so not fully understanding the config files that I’ve poked through trying to get this to work).

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Nevermind got it…

Why are these steps not in the documentation somewhere(?)… say in the README.md file or at https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/wallet-user-guide ?

(Last week I was using the wrong command in step 3 [cargo update] and I’m not sure if I looked in the target/release subfolder after attempting to build before.)

  1. $ git clone https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-wallet.git # cloned the directory
  2. $ git checkout v3.1.1 # changed the version to the latest tag
  3. $ rustup update stable # making sure the build is using the most current version of rust
  4. from the root directory of grin-wallet: $ cargo build --release

The binary/executable is built at grin-wallet/target/release/grin-wallet .

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Thank you for this post :slight_smile:

If you like, write a small tutorial on how to compile on Ubuntu X (uname -a) or send a small pull request to the official github repo. :+1: