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Solidity Programming Essentials
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Solidity Programming Essentials

by Ritesh Modi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
222 pages
5h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Solidity compiler

Solidity is one of the languages that is used to author smart contracts. Smart contracts will be dealt with in detail in the following chapters. The code written using Solidity is compiled using a Solidity compiler, which outputs byte code and other artifacts needed for deployment of smart contracts. Earlier, Solidity was part of the Geth installation; however, it has moved out of Geth and should be deployed using its own installation.

The Solidity compiler also known as solc can be installed using npm:

npm install -g solc

The preceding command line generates the following output:

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