RGB command-line tool

The main command-line tool to work with RGB smart contracts is rgb. It is written in Rust programming language and open-sourced under Apache 2.0 license. The tool provides complete RGB functionality locally, not requiring any node or server connection outside of Electrum server.

You can install the tool from crates repository or build from sources, located on GitHub.

Prerequisites

Before installing rgb in either way, you need to install components used in its build process.

First, you need to install cargo. Minimum supported rust compiler version (MSRV): 1.66, rust 2021 edition.

Next, you need to install developer components, which are OS-specific:

  • Linux

    sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake pkg-config

  • MacOS

    brew install cmake pkg-config

  • Windows: download and install the latest Visual Studio Redistributable

Installing from crates.io

$ cargo install rgb-contracts --all-features

Before the final RGB release it might be required to specify concrete pre-release version as an argument:

$ cargo install rgb-contracts --all-features --version 0.10.0

Building from sources

By building from the master tip you can get the latest nightly version of rgb. Otherwise, you can check one of our release tags.

$ git clone https://github.com/RGB-WG/rgb
$ cd rgb
$ cargo install --path . --all-features