Mist Browser
The Mist browser is the tool of choice to browse and use Ðapps.
For the Mist API see the MISTAPI.md.
Installation
If you want install the app from a pre-built version on the release page, you can simply run the executeable after download.
For updating simply download the new version and copy it over the old one (keep a backup of the old one if you want to be sure). The data folder for Mist is stored in other places:
- Windows
%APPDATA%\Mist
- MacOSX
~/Library/Application Support/Mist
- Linux
~/.config/Mist
Development
For development, a Meteor server will to be started to assist with live reload and CSS injection.
Once a Mist version is released the Meteor frontend part is bundled using meteor-build-client
npm package to create pure static files.
Dependencies
Requirements:
- Electron v1.2.5
- Node v4.3.0 or above
To run mist in development you need Node.js NPM and Meteor and electron installed:
$ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
$ npm install -g electron-prebuilt@1.2.5
$ npm install -g gulp
Installation
Now you're ready to install Mist:
$ git clone https://github.com/ethereum/mist.git
$ cd mist
$ git submodule update --init
$ npm install
$ gulp update-nodes
To update Mist in the future, run:
$ cd mist
$ git pull && git submodule update
$ npm install
$ gulp update-nodes
Run Mist
For development we start the interface with a Meteor server for autoreload etc. Start the interface in a separate terminal window:
$ cd mist/interface && meteor
In the original window you can then start Mist with:
$ cd mist
$ electron .
Run the Wallet
Start the wallet app for development, in a separate terminal window:
$ cd mist/interface && meteor
// and in another terminal
$ cd my/path/meteor-dapp-wallet/app && meteor --port 3050
In the original window you can then start Mist using wallet mode:
$ cd mist
$ electron . --mode wallet
Passing options to Geth/Eth
You can pass command-line options directly to Geth/Eth by prefixing them
with --node-
:
$ electron . --mode mist --node-rpcport 19343 --node-networkid 2
Using Mist with a privatenet
To run a private network you will need to set the networkdid
, ipcpath
and
datadir
flags:
$ electron . --ipcpath ~/Library/Ethereum/geth.ipc --node-networkid 1234 --node-datadir ~/Library/Ethereum/privatenet
NOTE: since ipcpath
is also a Mist option you do not need to also include a
--node-ipcpath
option.
You can also run geth
separately yourself with the same options prior to start
Mist normally.
Deployment
To create a binaries you need to install the following tools:
// tools for the windows binaries
$ brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
$ brew install wine
$ npm install -g meteor-build-client
To generate the binaries simply run:
$ cd mist
$ gulp update-nodes
// to generate mist
$ gulp mist
// Or to generate the wallet (using the https://github.com/ethereum/meteor-dapp-wallet -> master)
$ gulp wallet
This will generate the binaries inside the dist_mist
or dist_wallet
folder.
Options
platform
Additional you can only build the windows, linux or mac binary by using the platform
option:
$ gulp mist --platform darwin
// Or
$ gulp mist --platform "darwin win32"
Options are:
darwin
(Mac OSX)win32
(Windows)linux
(Linux)
walletSource
With the walletSource
you can specify the branch to use, default ist master
:
$ gulp mist --walletSource develop
Options are:
master
develop
local
Will try to build the wallet from [mist/]../meteor-dapp-wallet/app
mist-checksums | wallet-checksums
Spits out the SHA256 checksums of zip files. The zip files need to be generated manually for now!
It expects zip files to be named as the generated folders e.g. dist_wallet/Ethereum-Wallet-macosx-0-5-0.zip
$ gulp mist-checksums
> SHA256 Ethereum-Wallet-linux32-0-5-0.zip: 983dc9f1bc14a17a46f1e34d46f1bfdc01dc0868
> SHA256 Ethereum-Wallet-win32-0-5-0.zip: 1f8e56c198545c235d47921888e5ede76ce42dcf
> SHA256 Ethereum-Wallet-macosx-0-5-0.zip: dba5a13d6114b2abf1d4beca8bde25f1869feb45
> SHA256 Ethereum-Wallet-linux64-0-5-0.zip: 2104b0fe75109681a70f9bf4e844d83a38796311
> SHA256 Ethereum-Wallet-win64-0-5-0.zip: fc20b746eb37686edb04aee3e442492956adb546
Code signing for production
After the bundle run:
$ codesign --deep --force --verbose --sign "5F515C07CEB5A1EC3EEB39C100C06A8C5ACAE5F4" Ethereum-Wallet.app
Verify
$ codesign --verify -vvvv Ethereum-Wallet.app
$ spctl -a -vvvv Ethereum-Wallet.app