install_libsodium.rst

Installing Libsodium (Windows and MacOS only)

Running py-ipv8 on Windows or MacOS, requires manual installation of Libsodium.

Windows

1. Libsodium can be downloaded from https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/

   For eg. https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/libsodium-1.0.17-msvc.zip

2. Extract the files from the zip file

3. There are two extracted directories: x64 and Win32. Select x64 for 64-bit or Win32 for 32-bit versions of Windows, and search for libsodium.dll. You can find one inside Release/v141/dynamic/libsodium.dll

4. Copy this libsodium.dll file and paste it in C:\Windows\system32

MacOS

Homebrew can be used to install libsodium:

brew install libsodium

For details, check here.