Welcome to SolanaNFTMinter

Getting started

We will be installing Rust, Solana and Anchor Either watch this video or follow the commands listed below.

It is necessary for me to tell you that regardless of me doing my best to cover all edge cases and providing you all the solutions during this installation process, setting up dev envioments is frustrating. Have fun :)

For Mac/Linux:

To install Rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

check if you have installed everything correctly by typing this in the terminal

rustc -V or rustc --version

and also check for cargo, which is the package manager for rust cargo -V or cargo --version

2nd thing we are going to install is Solana

To install Solana

sh -c "$(curl -sSfL https://release.solana.com/v1.10.32/install)"

Note: you might be promted to add solana to your $PATH on your screen after this step, do so by following the steps on your screen, I'll leave the command here too! export PATH="/home/YOUR_SYSTEM_NAME/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin:$PATH"

Check if it was succesful by typing $PATH in your terminal

Check the version of solana installed by typing Solana --version

You can check your Solana wallet address by typing Solana address If you face an error after doing so, create a new wallet by typing solana-keygen new

Installing Anchor

This is the most pain in the ass thing ever. now that I have stated that, let's get started cargo install --git https://github.com/project-serum/anchor avm --locked --force

After that's done, install the latest version of 'AVM' or the Anchor Version Manager: avm install latest and then, avm use latest

Finally, check the latest version of Anchor by typing anchor --version

All of this might seem pretty straightforward, your life might seem happy and simple now. Huh, naive lil kid

Just to play around you can create a new Anchor project by typing

mkdir AnchorTest
cd AnchorTest
anchor init