/arm-rnode

This repo contains the deployment artifacts for Raspberry pi 3b deployment

Primary LanguageShell

Rnode on raspberry pi 3b

Deploying Rchain node on Raspberry pi 3b+

The deployment is based on a locally built of my rchain fork raspberry-pi branch

Deployment steps:

The deployment steps are:

  • OS installation
  • Prerequisite libraries and tools
  • set up classpath
  • rchain build

OS installation

node requires a 64 bit architecture. I found openSUSE to be an excellent choice for 64bit Arm architecture.

openSUSUE Leap 15.0 installation binaries are found at XFCE image

For more detail on OS installation refer to:

OS Specs and Version:

pi@lucid-pi:~> cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="42.3"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="42.3"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.3"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.3"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

Prerequisite

Install the following libraries and packages on your pi

YaSt installs:

  • jdk8-devel
  • automake cmake
  • apr-util
  • ninja
  • gcc c++
  • lmdb-devel
  • openSSL
  • libtool
  • tls

Manual Installs

libsodium

Download and install libsodium as outlined in the wiki

make sure you restart your pi post installation

netty-tcnative

This is by far the most complicated part of the deployment procedure as netty-tcnative is a crucial node dependency. netty-tcnative install will take several hours. For more detail see wiki

git clone git@github.com:netty/netty-tcnative.git
cd netty-tcnative
./mvnw compile
sudo ./mvnw install

CLASSPATH

add these to your ~/.profile

export M2_HOME=$HOME/.m2
export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"
export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$HOME/.local/share/java/java-cup-11b.jar"
export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$HOME/.local/share/java/java-cup-11b-runtime.jar"
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$M2_HOME/repository/io/netty/netty-tcnative-boringssl-static/2.0.13.Final-SNAPSHOT/netty-tcnative-boringssl-static-2.0.13.Final-SNAPSHOT-linux-aarch_64.jar
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$M2_HOME/repository/io/netty/netty-tcnative-boringssl-static/2.0.13.Final-SNAPSHOT/netty-tcnative-boringssl-static-2.0.13.Final-SNAPSHOT.jar
export SBT_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"

Deploy Rchain

  • deploy the pi-built image as outlined below
  • deploy your locally-built image

deploy pi-built image

Note that this is a special build of the rchain rnode for the purpose of the raspberry pi. You may simply run the image as outlined below. To run node on pi, follow rchain rnode exexution instruction

git clone  git@github.com:kayvank/rchain-node-bin.git
cd rchain-node
run ./bin/rnode -s -p 4000

deploy locally-built image

git clone git@github.com:kayvank/rchain.git
## make sure you use the raspberry-pi branch
git checkout -b raspberry-pi && git pull origin raspberry-pi

follow Developers guide

NOTE

This is very hacky.

Manually modify the rnode script script and add the system CLASSPATH, set. See line 341 EOL for detail.