Compiling

This ordering service was developed and tested under Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS and HLF v1.1. The docker images provided in Docker Hub are compatible with Docker 1.13.1 and above.

Because this ordering service needs to be integrated into the HLF codebase, it requires the HLF fork repository available here instead of the official repository. This means that all dependencies associated with the offical HLF codebase are still required for this fork. The pre-requisites associated to the HLF codebase can be found here.

Besides the aforementioned dependecies, this service also uses the JUDS library to provide UNIX sockets for communication between the Java and Go components. The codebase already includes the associated jar, but because it uses JNI to access native UNIX sockets interfaces, it is still necessary to download the source code from here and go through the installation steps described in the README.

Make sure to switch to the 'release-1.1' branch, both for this repository and for the aforementioned HLF fork. You can compile that fork the same way as the official repository. However, you must make sure to compile it outside of Vagrant, by executing:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/
sudo ./devenv/setupUbuntuOnPPC64le.sh

Notice that even though we are working with a fork instead of the original HLF repository, the code still needs to be stored in $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/. Following this, you can compile HLF as follows:

make dist-clean peer orderer configtxgen

To compile the Java code provided by this repository, you can simply type ant in its main folder. To compile the images available at Docker Hub, enter the docker_images sub-directory and run the create_docker_images.sh script (you will need to provide the name for the system channel as an argument).