Can't find output files

[GratefulDave]

I successfully built the Zcash-Apple wallet but do not have a directory out/usr/local/bin on my computer. I have:

Zcash-fetch-params.1 Does the .1 mean that it is for version 1.1?

Zcash-init This is in a completely different directory.

Zcashhd is nowhere to be found on my computer.

[GratefulDave]

And when I do ty to run zcash-fetch-params.1 I get permission denied. I can figure out how to change the permission if required but I do not understand what is going on.

[kozyilmaz]

Hi @GratefulDave , there should be a directory named out in the top project directory. All the binaries and scripts are inside it, can you verify its there?

[GratefulDave]

@kozyilmaz No /out directory. Here is what I have.

[kozyilmaz]

@GratefulDave sorry but it seems zcash is not built yet. Is it possible that you run make all under tools instead of zcash-apple?

[kozyilmaz]

@GratefulDave may I ask you to try with latest master from scratch? I fixed the first issue that you opened in the meantime.

[GratefulDave]

@kozyilmaz

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[kozyilmaz]

@GratefulDave this build tree does not seem to be clean. Possibly you'll see files like .cloned, .configured or .built in package directories. Can you please do a fresh clone like this and send me the output:

Please open a new terminal window
$ git clone https://github.com/kozyilmaz/zcash-apple.git
$ cd zcash-apple
$ source environment
$ PRINT_DEBUG=y make all

Sorry for the trouble.

[GratefulDave]

Thanks. I needed to install WGET and it worked.

rpcuser=username rpcpassword=head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64

The /dev/urandom | base 64 appears to be creating a random password. Is this created the first time the file is run and saved in the config file or does it change each time? It would make more sense for it to remain the same. I just wanted to understand.

Obviously I could use any username . . . .

[kozyilmaz]

@GratefulDave wget should not be needed, what was the error you encountered? The reason of the existence of this project is being self contained on macOS.

If you followed run instructions (https://github.com/kozyilmaz/zcash-apple#run-instructions) the rpcpassword part is already taken care of by zcash-init (created randomly and written to zcash.conf once, used without change afterwards). The part you are quoting is about running the testnet, I will remove that part to eliminate confusion.

[GratefulDave]

The error was it required ipfs, wget, or curl. I have curl.

I did the instructions and previously you had:

rpcuser=username rpcpassword=head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64

instead of:

rpcuser=SOME_USERNAME rpcpassword=SOME_PASSWORD

I wanted to understand exactly what is going on because I am very new.

[GratefulDave]

And there is no zcash.conf file on my computer except the standard one in examples.

[kozyilmaz]

@GratefulDave no worries :)

If you follow the run instructions (https://github.com/kozyilmaz/zcash-apple#run-instructions)

$ cd out/usr/local/bin

# for testnet
$ ./zcash-fetch-params --testnet

# for mainnet
$ ./zcash-fetch-params

$ ./zcash-init
$ ./zcashd

The zcash-init command that you run once at the installation, actually created a random password for you (see the rpcpassword line) and afterwards you may only run zcashd

bash-3.2$ cat zcash-init 
#!/bin/bash

# excerpted from zclassic/zutil/init-mac.sh

if [ ! -f "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Zcash/zcash.conf" ]; then
    echo "Creating zcash.conf"
    mkdir -p "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Zcash/"
    echo "rpcuser=zcashrpc" > ~/Library/Application\ Support/Zcash/zcash.conf
    PASSWORD=$(cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)
    echo "rpcpassword=$PASSWORD" >> "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Zcash/zcash.conf"
    echo "Complete!"
fi

[kozyilmaz]

@GratefulDave just run the command below on your Terminal to see contents of your zcash.conf file, if you didn't follow the run instructionsplease follow them first (you are using mainnet of course).

cat $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Zcash/zcash.conf

[GratefulDave]

@kozyilmaz Thank you for being patient with me. I have a few questions:

If I understand correctly testnet is a sandbox and mainnet is the live chain. I did run the testnet first and the mainnet second. I am not sure how that affects the installation. If I am (obviously) not developing and only using mainnet should I just re-initialize with mainnet?

Is it correct to infer that I should only be running mainnet or testnet? In my case mainnet?

[kozyilmaz]

@GratefulDave actually you didn't initialize with testnet. By running ./zcash-fetch-params and ./zcash-fetch-params --testnet commands you just downloaded additional data (params) both for mainnet and testnet.

Unless you specifically enabled testnet in your zcash.conf like below, you didn't download a single testnet block yet.

### connect to test network
testnet=1
addnode=testnet.z.cash

And even if you do that, you can safely remove those three lines from your config, restart zcashd and Zcash client will connect to mainnet and start syncing without issues don't worry.

[kozyilmaz]

Hey @GratefulDave, is everything clear, can I close this issue?