Cardano DEX

Nix setup

WSL2 (Windows only)

• Install WSL2, using command wsl.exe --install inside an elevated CMD/Powershell (Source)
• After restarting, Windows should open a Shell window and start downloading Ubuntu, wait until it's done

NIX

• Navigate to your user folder in the Ubuntu installation and perform a single-user installation using curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh -s -- --no-daemon (Source)

Cachix binary caches

• Install the cachix client from nix shell

  nix-env -iA cachix -f https://cachix.org/api/v1/install

• Add IOHK caches

  cachix use iohk
  

Build

DON'T use the recommended settings when entering the nix shell for the first time when asked.

make shell
make build # Run build
make export # Run export

Contracts

Contracts are defined in src/. Before they can be added to transactions, they have to be transpiled into a plutus intermediate representation.

Traces

By default all contracts are stripped of the error messages, if you want them in, please set the CONTRACTS_TRACING env variable to true.