Building with Docker Images

Prerequisites

Make sure docker is installed and working, and has the docker compose command.

Contract DB Storage

The docker image stores its data at /root/.local/share/freenet inside the container. This is mapped to /tmp/freenet-docker outside the container.

Build the base Docker image of Freenet

All the docker related files are in the docker subdirectory.

Requires that Docker be installed and working. Then, in the root directory of the repo:

To build the Docker Freenet container:

cd docker
docker compose build

Running Freenet from the Docker image

Note: Currently the node will not pick up new contracts when they are published. Make sure the node is stopped and re-started after new contracts are added.

docker compose up

Running the fdev tool from the docker image

There is a shell script in the docker sub directory which makes running fdev from inside the container against source held outside the container easier. It behaves just like the fdev tool, except as stated below.

Getting help from fdev

/location/of/freenet/docker/fdev.sh --help

Building Contracts

To BUILD a contract, we need to define 1 or 2 env vars:

• PROJECT_SRC_DIR = Root of the Project being build and defaults to pwd so if you are in your project root, no need to set it.
• CONTRACT_SRC_DIR = Relative DIR under PROJECT_SRC_DIR to the Contract to build. eg, ./web would build a contract in the web subdirectory of the PROJECT_SRC_DIR. Note: This MUST be a subdirectory.

eg (in the root of the project):

CONTRACT_SRC_DIR=./web /location/of/freenet/docker/fdev.sh build

Publishing Contracts

From the base directory of the contract project.

/location/of/freenet/docker/fdev.sh publish --code target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/my_contract.wasm contract --state web/build/freenet/contract-state