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# C-IPFS
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IPFS implementation in C, (not just an API client library).
## Quick start for users:
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* **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.
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* **ipfs cat \[hash\]** to retrieve a file from the repository
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## For techies (ipfs spec docs):
* [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
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## 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
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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".
