Running a Zcash OpenBazaar Testnet Store
We can always use people helping to test out OpenBazaar and now that we’re rolling out new *friends* to the network I thought I’d kick it off with some instructions for one specific case: Zcash on OS X.
*One reminder is that if you have Macports installed this can conflict with your build process. I recommend uninstalling it if you aren’t using it to make your life easier.
- Open Terminal
- Create a clean directory to clone the zcash-apple software into and go inside of the folder (i.e. mkdir ~/zcash; cd ~/zcash)
- git clone https://github.com/kozyilmaz/zcash-apple
- cd zcash-apple
- source environment
- PRINT_DEBUG=y make all
Once this build process has succeeded with no errors you can then proceed to the following steps:
- cd out/usr/local/bin
- ./zcash-fetch-params
- ./zcash-init
Congratulations Zcash is mostly set up and ready to roll for OpenBazaar. Now you must get the testnet release for the upcoming altcoins support.
- Download OpenBazaar2-2.0.21.dmg from https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases/tag/altcoins-rc1
- Install the application
- Run OpenBazaar
You will be connected to a Bitcoin node by default so you will need to create a new configuration for Zcash.
- Click the avatar at the top right of the app to activate the menu and hover over Built-in Server — BTC
- Choose New Server
- Make sure Built-in local is selected and choose the Zcash option
- In the Zcash Binary field make sure you put the location of your binary that you just built (eg. ~/zcash/zcash-apple/out/usr/local/bin/zcashd)
- Hit the Save button and the server will start up zcashd and open up OpenBazaar.
There is one more little quirky thing to do to fix running OpenBazaar [Zcash] on testnet.
- Close OpenBazaar
- Open up the zcash.conf file in ~/Library/Application Support/OpenBazaar2.0-testnet-zcash/zcash
- Add the last two lines shown below to the text file and save it.
- Close the file and restart OpenBazaar
You are now ready to run OpenBazaar for Zcash on the Zcash testnet for testing!
