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Reduce the number of targets and make the buildsystem more flexible by parsing the TENDERMINT_BUILD_OPTIONS command line variable (a-la Debian, inspired by dpkg-buildpackage's DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS), e.g: $ make install TENDERMINT_BUILD_OPTIONS='cleveldb' replaces the old: $ make install_c Options can be mix&match'd, e.g.: $ make install TENDERMINT_BUILD_OPTIONS='cleveldb race nostrip' Three options are available: - nostrip: don't strip debugging symbols nor DWARF tables. - cleveldb: use cleveldb as db backend instead of goleveldb; it switches on the CGO_ENABLED Go environment variale. - race: pass -race to go build and enable data race detection. This changeset is a port of gaia pull request: cosmos/gaia#363.
Tendermint
Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation!
Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform; it provides the equivalent of a web-server, database, and supporting libraries for blockchain applications written in any programming language. Like a web-server serving web applications, Tendermint serves blockchain applications.
More formally, Tendermint Core performs Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) State Machine Replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines. For more background, see What is Tendermint?.
To get started quickly with an example application, see the quick start guide.
To learn about application development on Tendermint, see the Application Blockchain Interface.
For more details on using Tendermint, see the respective documentation for Tendermint Core, benchmarking and monitoring, and network deployments.
To find out about the Tendermint ecosystem you can go here. If you are a project that is using Tendermint you are welcome to make a PR to add your project to the list.
Contribute
To contribute to the documentation, see this file for details of the build process and considerations when making changes.