librat
Nodes in the Minot network that share data are called Rats (here is why). The functionality is shipped as a Rust and C library.
Ubuntu
Our PPA provides .deb files for a system-wide installation.
curl -fsSL "https://ppa.steado.tech/ubuntu/key.gpg" | gpg --dearmor \
| sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/steado-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steado-archive-keyring.gpg] https://ppa.steado.tech/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo $UBUNTU_CODENAME) main" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steado.list
sudo apt update
After the setup, you can simply run apt.
Debian-based Distros
The PPA mentioned above is specific to Ubuntu the package itself does not require any system dependencies. Therefore it can be installed manually on all debian-based distros.
curl -s https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/stelzo/minot/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url" \
| grep ".deb" \
| grep "$(dpkg --print-architecture)" \
| cut -d '"' -f 4 \
| xargs curl -L -O
sudo dpkg -i ./librat-dev_*.deb
The package also installs a pkg-config file, which allows the following usage in CMake.
find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
pkg_check_modules(RAT REQUIRED librat)
add_executable(my_app main.c)
target_include_directories(my_app PRIVATE ${RAT_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_link_libraries(myfind_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
pkg_check_modules(RAT REQUIRED librat)
add_executable(my_app main.c)
target_include_directories(my_app PRIVATE ${RAT_INCLUDE_DIRS})
target_link_libraries(my_app PRIVATE ${RAT_LIBRARIES})
Prebuilt Files
Every release contains librat-<target>.a, librat-<target>.so or librat-<target>.dylib, rat.h, librat.pc and libratConfig.cmake. The installation script installs them with --with-rat.
From Source
Building from source generates a static and shared library in the ./target/full-release/ folder. You will need to clone the repository first.
git clone https://codeberg.org/stelzo/minot
cd minot
cargo rustc --package mt_rat --profile full-release --lib --crate-type staticlib,cdylib
Restricting the build to the C library types lets the full-release profile apply link-time optimization, which keeps the static library small. A plain cargo build --package mt_rat --release also works, but its static library is several times larger.
A typical system-wide installation is done by copying the libraries to your linker path. Alternatively, you may change the link path and include search paths in your build system.
sudo cp ./target/full-release/librat.* /usr/local/lib/
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/include/rat/
sudo cp ./mt_rat/rat.h /usr/local/include/rat/
Then you can use the library in your C/C++ code.
And link with -lrat.
For using the Rust library, just add this to your dependencies in Cargo.toml.