About DeSo

DeSo is a blockchain built from the ground up to support a fully-featured social network. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, but it also supports complex social network data like profiles, posts, follows, creator coin transactions, and more.

Read about the vision

About This Repo

Documentation for this repo lives on docs.deso.org. Specifically, the following docs should give you everything you need to get started:

• DeSo Code Walkthrough
• Setting Up Your Dev Environment
• Making Your First Changes

Common Errors and their solutions

These are common errors you may encounter in getting ./n0_test to succeed.

If you encounter an error not mentioned here in setting up your installation, please share the solution here with the community

no pkg-config

Error

# pkg-config --cflags  -- vips vips vips vips
pkg-config: exec: "pkg-config": executable file not found in $PATH

Solution

brew install pkg-config

no vips

Error

# pkg-config --cflags  -- vips vips vips vips
Package vips was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `vips.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'vips' found

Solution

brew install vips

invalig pkg-config flag

Error

go build github.com/h2non/bimg: invalid flag in pkg-config --cflags: -Xpreprocessor

Solution

export CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW="-Xpreprocessor"

Error

ld: library not found for -lvips
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Solution

go clean -cache