[Tut] How to Install the Solidity Compiler? [Overview + Videos]

How to Install the Solidity Compiler? [Overview + Videos]

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There are four major ways to install the Solidity compiler:

1. Install Solidity Compiler via npm
2. Install Solidity Compiler via Docker on Ubuntu
3. Install Solidity Compiler via Source Code Compilation
4. Install Solidity Compiler via Static Binary and Linux Packages

In this tutorial, we’ll have a quick look at each of them and give you a link to a more detailed resource so you can set up your Solidity compiler as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Video: For your convenience, I embedded the video tutorial provided by our Solidity expert Matija so you don’t even need to leave this page.

Without further ado, let’s get started!

Method 1: Install Solidity Compiler via npm

As you watch the video or go through this tutorial, feel free to download the following slides as well — for your convenience:

Finxter-Solidity-Slides-Install-Compiler-NPMDownload

Full Tutorial: How to Install the Solidity Compiler via npm?

Method 2: Install Solidity Compiler via Docker on Ubuntu

Solidity-Blog-Finxter-Compiler-DockerDownload

Before we go into details about the Docker installation of solc, let’s first get introduced to what Docker is.

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications… Docker provides the ability to package and run an application in a loosely isolated environment called a container… Containers are lightweight and contain everything needed to run the application, so you do not need to rely on what is currently installed on the host.

Source: https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview/

There are some parts of the description I’ve deliberately left out (separated by the symbol …) because they’re not essential to our understanding of the technology.

Full Tutorial: How to Install the Solidity Compiler via Docker on Ubuntu?

Method 3: Install Solidity Compiler via Source Code Compilation

This is a very complex way to install the Solidity compiler and I wouldn’t recommend it for most people. Due to the complexity, I’ll only give a quick overview of the associated article (tutorial).

Feel free to dive into it after scanning through these three contributions:

1. First, we listed and explained the software prerequisites needed for compiling a Solidity compiler. In some cases, we reached a complete explanation, and in others, we just gave a brief introductory explanation and announced an entire topic, such as in the case of the Satisfiability Modulo Theorem, SMT.
2. Second, we installed the prerequisites by following the first part of a step-by-step tutorial. All the examples have been checked and validated at the time of writing the article, so I expect that we’ll be able to follow them without issues. We also concluded that a compilation process can in some cases take a substantial amount of time; it took almost 40 minutes to compile the z3 SMT solver on my machine.
3. Third, we compiled a Solidity compiler following a step-by-step tutorial. I explained for each command example to broaden our learning process even outside of the strict scope of Solidity, to Linux (as far as we needed to go). Finally, when the compilation ended, we confirmed that our home-compiled Solidity compiler works at least as charming as the ones we’ve simply downloaded or installed in a precompiled state.

Full Tutorial: How to Install the Solidity Compiler via Source Code Compilation?

Method 4: Install Solidity Compiler via Static Binary and Linux Packages

You’ll just download the compiler’s static binary, or in short, binary, and simply run it, without any additional prerequisites or preparations required.

First, downloading the file solc-static-linux and giving it an executable privilege:

$ cd ~ && wget https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/rel...atic-linux

$ chmod +x ~/solc-static-linux

Second, running solc:

$ ~/solc-static-linux 1_Storage.sol -o output – abi – bin

Compiler run successful. Artifact(s) can be found in directory "output".

When checking our solidity_src directory, we’ll discover a new directory output, created by the Solidity compiler, containing both .abi and .bin files.

Full Tutorial: How to Install the Solidity Compiler via Static Binary and Linux Packages?

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