README.md

validator-keys-tool

Rippled validator key generation tool

Introduction

C++ library to create, sign, and serialize Ripple transactions before submission to the Ripple Consensus Ledger (rippled). Duplicates much of the functionality of the sign RPC function without the overhead of a JSON library, network delays, needing to trust a 3rd party's rippled, nor needing to run your own rippled.

Table of contents

• Dependencies
  • ripple-libpp submodule
  • Other dependencies
• Installation
• Demo
  • Additional dependencies
  • Build and run

Dependencies

ripple-libpp submodule

This includes a git submodule to the ripple-libpp source code, which is not cloned by default. To get the ripple-libpp source, either clone this repository using

$ git clone --recursive <location>

or after cloning, run the following commands

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Other dependencies

• C++14 or greater
• Boost
• OpenSSL

Additional dependencies

In addition to the Usage dependencies, building the demo requires

• cmake

Build and run

For linux and other unix-like OSes, run the following commands:

$ cd ${YOUR_RIPPLE_LIBPP_DIRECTORY}
$ mkdir -p build/gcc.debug
$ cd build/gcc.debug
$ cmake ../..
$ cmake --build .
$ ./validator-keys

For 64-bit Windows, open a MSBuild Command Prompt for Visual Studio and run the following commands:

> cd %YOUR_RIPPLE_LIBPP_DIRECTORY%
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake -G"Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" ..
> cmake --build .
> .\Debug\validator-keys.exe

32-bit Windows builds are not officially supported.