c-ipfs/README.md

C-IPFS

IPFS implementation in C, (not just an API client library).

Quick start for users:

• ipfs init to create an ipfs repository on your machine
• ipfs add MyFile.txt to add a file to the repository, will return with a hash that can be used to retrieve the file.
• ipfs cat [hash] to retrieve a file from the repository
  
  For techies:
  getting started: https://github.com/ipfs/specs/blob/master/overviews/implement-ipfs.md
  specifications: https://github.com/ipfs/specs
  getting started: https://github.com/ipfs/community/issues/177
  libp2p: https://github.com/libp2p/specs
  
  Prerequisites: To compile the C version you will need:
  lmdb https://github.com/jmjatlanta/lmdb
  c-protobuf https://github.com/Agorise/c-protobuf
  c-multihash https://github.com/Agorise/c-multihash
  c-multiaddr https://github.com/Agorise/c-multiaddr
  c-libp2p https://github.com/Agorise/c-libp2p
  
  And of course this project at https://github.com/Agorise/c-ipfs
  
  The compilation at this point is simple, but not very flexible. Place all of these projects in a directory. Compile all (the order above is recommended) by going into each one and running "make all".