Environment Setup
Supported Operating Systems
The Phat Contract uses Rust-based ink! language, and is finally compiled to WebAssembly (WASM for short).
- You can get your contract compiled on both macOS and Linux distributions (we use Ubuntu 22.04 as the default Linux distribution);
- For Windows users, we recommend to setup a Linux development environment with virtual machine (video tutorial).
Install Toolchains
Phat Contract shares exactly the same toolchains as ink!.
Rust
A prerequisite for compiling Phat Contracts is to have Rust and Cargo (Rust’s project manager) installed.
The Rust official recommends using rustup tool to install and manage different Rust versions. Here’s an installation guide.
ink!
We recommend installing cargo-contract. It’s a CLI tool that helps set up and manage contracts written with ink!.
You can install the cargo-contract with
# use the `--force` to ensure you are updated to the most recent version
cargo install cargo-contract --force
Then check your cargo-contract and ensure it’s updated to 2.x with ink! 4 support
cargo contract --version
# cargo-contract-contract 2.1.0-unknown-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu