Installation

Solidity

To install solidity compiler solc

brew update
brew upgrade
brew tap ethereum/ethereum
brew install solidity

Checkout this page to install on other platforms - Solidity

Protoc is required to generate go code

To install protoc

brew install protoc-gen-go

This tool generates go code from bin (binary) and abi (application binary interface) files

go get -u github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/
make
make devtools

If you don't know you GOPATH, you can use this command to find it.

go env

Check if abigen is installed and working

which abigen

If not, then go to the build folder to find abigen and copy it to your bin folder

cd $GOPATH/pkg/mod/github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum@v1.14.3/build/bin
cp abigen /opt/homebrew/bin/abigen

This is how you test blockchain locally. You can test your smart contracts locally.

To install ganache

brew install --cask ganache

Or, download it from here - Ganache