Installing Sapio

Sapio Pod QuickStart:

DOWNLOAD THE POD

Today, Sapio can come to you in an easy to set up Docker compatible container (unofficial™). With the Sapio pod you get:

  1. A CTV Compatible Bitcoin Node running regtest
  2. Rust
  3. A pre-built cached Sapio Directory for you to use as a workspace
  4. sapio-cli pre-built
  5. Sapio Studio built and running over X11 connected to your regtest node
  6. neovim for editing

See the repo for setup instructions, especially with x11 through containerization.

This is the simplest way to get a working Sapio playground, but you may prefer to have it set up locally (x11 can be glitchy). The Sapio Pod is currently targetted at someone wanting a pain free development environment for tutorials, but future releases may target more specific needs such as deployments in infrastructure.

The book will assume this is your setup, and instructions will be tailored appropriately.

Local QuickStart:

Sapio should work on all platforms, but is recommended for use with Linux (Ubuntu preferred). Follow this quickstart guide to get going.

  1. Get rust if you don't have it already.
  2. Add the wasm target and nightly toolchain by running the below command in your terminal:
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Tip: On macOS you may need to do the following:

brew install llvm
cargo install wasm-pack
rustup toolchain install nightly
rustup default nightly

and then load the following before compiling to use the newer llvm/clang.

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH"
# for older homebrew installs
# export PATH="/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH"
export CC=/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/clang
export AR=/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/llvm-ar
  1. Clone this repo: 
git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:sapio-lang/sapio.git && cd sapio

We recommend a shallow clone unless you want the full history.

  1. Build a plugin
cd plugin-example/ && cargo build --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown && cd ..

If the compilation fails, you may want to check the clang version (8<=), and install libraries for cross-compilation (in case of ubuntu, sudo apt install gcc-multilib)

  1. Instantiate a contract from the plugin:
cargo run --bin sapio-cli -- contract create "{\"arguments\":{\"ForAddress\":{\"amount_step\":{\"Sats\":100},\"cold_storage\":\"bcrt1qumrrqgt7e3a7damzm8x97m6sjs20u8hjw2hcjj\",\"hot_storage\":\"bcrt1qumrrqgt7e3a7damzm8x97m6sjs20u8hjw2hcjj\",\"mature\":{\"RH\":10},\"n_steps\":10,\"timeout\":{\"RH\":5}}},\"context\":{\"amount\":1,\"network\":\"Regtest\"}}" --file="plugin-example/target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/debug/sapio_wasm_vault.wasm"

You can use cargo run --release --bin sapio-cli -- help to learn more about what a the CLI can do! and cargo run --bin sapio-cli -- <subcommand> help to learn about subcommands like contract. If you aren't modifying Sapio itself, you'll want to run cargo build --release and use a release binary as it is much faster.

  1. Install Sapio Studio

Sapio Studio is an in-development graphical user interface for Sapio. It is the recommended way to get started with Sapio development. We recommend a shallow clone unless you want the full history.

git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:sapio-lang/sapio-studio.git && cd sapio-studio
yarn install

and then in separate shells

yarn start-react
yarn start-electron

The first time you run it you most likely will have some errors, you will need to ensure you've configured your client correctly. You can do this by opening the Preferences menu and configuring it appropriately. Soon there will be a better interface for first run setup.

Docs

You can review the docs either by building them locally or viewing online.