installing

import { CodeExample } from "components/CodeExample";

To install Horizon, you have a choice: you can download a prebuilt release for your target architecture and operation system or you can build Horizon yourself. When either approach is complete, you will find yourself with a directory containing a file named horizon. This file is a native binary.

After building or unpacking Horizon, you simply need to copy the native binary into a directory that is part of your PATH. Most unix-like systems have /usr/local/bin in PATH by default, so unless you have a preference or know better, we recommend you copy the binary there.

To test the installation, simply run horizon --help from a terminal. If the help for Horizon is displayed, your installation was successful. Note: some shells, such as zsh, cache PATH lookups. You may need to clear your cache (by using rehash in zsh, for example) before trying to run horizon --help.

Building

Should you decide not to use one of our prebuilt releases, you may instead build Horizon from source. To do so, you need to install some developer tools:

• A unix-like operating system with the common core commands (cp, tar, mkdir, bash, etc.)

• A compatible distribution of Go (Go 1.13 or later)

• git

• mercurial

• See the details in README.md for installing dependencies.

• Compile the Horizon binary: go install github.com/stellar/go/services/horizon. You should see the horizon binary in $GOPATH/bin.

• Add Go binaries to your PATH in your bashrc or equivalent, for easy access: export PATH=${GOPATH//://bin:}/bin:$PATH

Open a new terminal. Confirm everything worked by running horizon --help successfully.

Note: Building directly on windows is not supported.