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Oxen.ai's core rust library, server, and CLI
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# 🐂 Oxen



Create a world where everyone can contribute to an Artificial General Intelligence, starting with the data.



# 🌾 What is Oxen?



Oxen at it's core is a data version control library, written in Rust. It's goals are to be fast, reliable, and easy to use. It's designed to be used in a variety of ways, from a simple command line tool, to a remote server to sync to, to integrations into other ecosystems such as [python](https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release).



# 📚 Documentation



The documentation for the Oxen.ai tool chain can be found [here](https://docs.oxen.ai).



# 🔨 Build & Run



## Install Dependencies



Oxen is purely written in Rust 🦀. You should install the Rust toolchain with rustup: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install.



```

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

```



If you are a developer and want to learn more about adding code or the overall architecture [start here](docs/dev/AddLibraryCode.md). Otherwise, a quick start to make sure everything is working follows.



## Build



```

cargo build

```



If on intel mac, you may need to build with the following



```

$ rustup target install x86_64-apple-darwin

$ cargo build --target x86_64-apple-darwin

```



If on Windows, you may need to add the following directories to the 'INCLUDE' environment variable



```

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\include"



"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.27023\include"



"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\Llvm\lib\clang\12.0.0\include"

```

These are example paths and will vary between machines. If you install 'C++ Clang tools for Windows' through [Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019), the directories can be located from the Visual Studio installation under 'BuildTools\VC\Tools'



## Speed up the build process



You can use the [mold](https://github.com/rui314/mold) linker to speed up builds (The MIT-licensed macOS version is [sold](https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold)).



Use the following instructions to

install sold and configure cargo to use it for building Oxen:



```

git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold.git



mkdir sold/build

cd sold/build

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=c++ ..

cmake --build . -j $(nproc)

sudo cmake --install .

```



Then create `.cargo/config.toml` in your Oxen repo root with the following

content:



```

[target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]

rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld64.mold"]



[target.x86_64-apple-darwin]

rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=/usr/local/bin/ld64.mold"]



```



**For macOS with Apple Silicon**, you can use the [lld](https://lld.llvm.org/) linker.



```

brew install llvm

```



Then create `.cargo/config.toml` in your Oxen repo root with the following:



```

[target.aarch64-apple-darwin]

rustflags = [ "-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/ld64.lld", ]



```



# Run 



## CLI



To run Oxen from the command line, add the `Oxen/target/debug` directory to the 'PATH' environment variable



```

export PATH="$PATH:/path/to/Oxen/target/debug"

```



On Windows, you can use 



```

$env:PATH += ";/path/to/Oxen/target/debug" 

```



Initialize a new repository or clone an existing one



```

oxen init

oxen clone https://hub.oxen.ai/namespace/repository

```



This will create the `.oxen` dir in your current directory and allow you to run Oxen CLI commands



```

oxen status

oxen add images/

oxen commit -m "added images"

oxen push origin main

```



## Oxen Server



To run a local Oxen Server, generate a config file and token to authenticate the user 



```

./target/debug/oxen-server add-user --email [email protected] --name Ox --output user_config.toml

```



Copy the config to the default locations



```

mkdir ~/.oxen

```



```

mv user_config.toml ~/.oxen/user_config.toml

```



```

cp ~/.oxen/user_config.toml data/test/config/user_config.toml

```



Set where you want the data to be synced to. The default sync directory is `./data/` to change it set the SYNC_DIR environment variable to a path.



```

export SYNC_DIR=/path/to/sync/dir

```



You can also create a .env.local file in the /src/server directory which can contain the SYNC_DIR variable to avoid setting it every time you run the server.



Run the server



```

./target/debug/oxen-server start

```



To run the server with live reload, first install cargo-watch



```

cargo install cargo-watch

```



On Windows, you may need to use `cargo-watch --locked`



```

cargo install cargo-watch --locked

```



Then run the server like this



```

cargo watch -- cargo run --bin oxen-server start

```



## Nix Flake



If you have [Nix installed](https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer)

you can use the flake to build and run the server. This will automatically

install and configure the required build toolchain dependencies for Linux & macOS.



```

nix build .#oxen-server

nix build .#oxen-cli

nix build .#liboxen

```



```

nix run .#oxen-server -- start

nix run .#oxen-cli -- init

```



To develop with the standard rust toolchain in a Nix dev shell:



```

nix develop -c $SHELL

cargo build

cargo run --bin oxen-server start

cargo run --bin oxen start

```



The flake also provides derviations to build OCI (Docker) images with the minimal

set of dependencies required to build and run `oxen` & `oxen-server`.



```

nix build .#oci-oxen-server

nix build .#oci-oxen-cli

```



This will export the OCI image and can be loaded with:



```

docker load -i result

```



# Unit & Integration Tests



Make sure your user is configured and server is running on the default port and host, by following these setup steps:



```bash

# Configure a user

mkdir ./data/test/runs

./target/debug/oxen-server add-user --email [email protected] --name Ox --output user_config.toml

cp user_config.toml data/test/config/user_config.toml

# Start the oxen-server

./target/debug/oxen-server start

```



*Note:* tests open up a lot of file handles, so limit num test threads if running everything.



You an also increase the number of open files your system allows ulimit before running tests:



```

ulimit -n 10240

```



```

cargo test -- --test-threads=$(nproc)

```



It can be faster (in terms of compilation and runtime) to run a specific test. To run a specific library test:



```

cargo test --lib test_get_metadata_text_readme

```



To run a specific integration test



```

cargo test --test test_rm test_rm_directory_restore_directory

```



To run with all debug output and run a specific test



```

env RUST_LOG=warn,liboxen=debug,integration_test=debug cargo test -- --nocapture test_command_push_clone_pull_push

```



To set a different test host you can set the `OXEN_TEST_HOST` environment variable



```

env OXEN_TEST_HOST=0.0.0.0:4000 cargo test

```



# Oxen Server



## Structure



Remote repositories have the same internal structure as local ones, with the caviate that all the data is in the .oxen dir and not duplicated into a "local workspace".



# APIs



Server defaults to localhost 3000



```

set SERVER 0.0.0.0:3000

```



You can grab your auth token from the config file above (~/.oxen/user_config.toml)



```

set TOKEN 

```



## List Repositories



```

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "http://$SERVER/api/repos"

```



## Create Repository



```

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -X POST -d '{"name": "MyRepo"}' "http://$SERVER/api/repos"

```



# Docker



Create the docker image



```

docker build -t oxen/server:0.6.0 .

```



Run a container on port 3000 with a local filesystem mounted from /var/oxen/data on the host to /var/oxen/data in the container.



```

docker run -d -v /var/oxen/data:/var/oxen/data -p 3000:3001 --name oxen oxen/server:0.6.0

```



Or use docker compose



```

docker-compose up -d reverse-proxy

```



```

docker-compose up -d --scale oxen=4 --no-recreate

```