Step zero is to clone this repo and cd to the right directory:

cd <wherever-you-cloned-libpolycrypto>

First, install deps using:

scripts/linux/install-libs.sh
scripts/linux/install-deps.sh

Then, set up the environment. This will store the built code in ~/builds/polycrypto/:

. scripts/linux/set-env.sh release

...you can also use debug, relwithdebug or trace as an argument for set-env.sh.

To build:

make.sh

..tests, benchmarks and any other binaries are automatically added to PATH but can also be found in

cd ~/builds/polycrypto/master/release/libpolycrypto/bin/

(or replace release with debug or whatever you used in set-env.sh)

There's a bunch of useful scripts in scripts/linux/:

• plot-*.py for generating plots
• cols.sh, dkg-cols.sh, vss-cols.sh for viewing CSV data in the terminal
• generate-qsbdh-params.sh for generating public parameters for the VSS/DKG code

This is just for reference purposes. No need to execute these. To fetch the submodules, just do:

git submodule init
git submodule update

For historical purposes, (i.e., don't execute these), when I set up the submodules, I did:

cd depends/
git submodule add git://github.com/herumi/ate-pairing.git
git submodule add git://github.com/herumi/xbyak.git
git submodule add git://github.com/scipr-lab/libff.git
git submodule add https://github.com/scipr-lab/libfqfft.git

To update your submodules with changes from their upstream github repos, do:

git submodule foreach git pull origin master