Setting Up Your Environment

Environment configuration instructions to get started developing on Secret Network.

Secret Contracts are written using the . CosmWasm contracts are written in Rust, which is later compiled to WebAssembly (or WASM for short). To write our first Secret Contract, we need to set up a development environment with all of the tools required so that you can upload, instantiate, and execute your smart contracts.

For a step-by-step Secret Network environment configuration video tutorial, 🎥. Otherwise, continue reading!

Install Requirements

To follow along with the guide, we will be using git, make, rust, and docker.

sudo apt-get install git make

Install git:

Download the latest .
Follow the prompts to install Git.
Open a terminal and verify the installation was successful by typing git --version

Install make:

brew install make

Install git and perl (for Windows):

Go to and the download will start automatically. Note that this is a project called Git for Windows, which is separate from Git itself; for more information on it, go to .
Go to and download the recommended version for your system. StrawberryPerl is an open-source Perl environment for Windows; for more information, visit . Perl is used to build other dependencies that will be installed later.

Note: support for make on Windows is limited, so we'll provide separate commands for Windows where necessary

Install Rust

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

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Add WASM build target

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

Having Trouble? You might need to restart your terminal, or run a command like:

source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

After installing Rust to configure the current shell

Install Cargo Generate

Cargo generate is the tool you'll use to create a smart contract project.

cargo install cargo-generate --features vendored-openssl

Install Docker

Install SecretCLI

SecretCLI is a command-line tool that lets us interact with the Secret Network blockchain. It is used to send and query data as well as manage user keys and wallets.

wget https://github.com/scrtlabs/SecretNetwork/releases/latest/download/secretcli-Linux
chmod +x secretcli-Linux
sudo mv secretcli-Linux /usr/local/bin/secretcli

Run the following commands in Powershell to download the latest version of SecretCLI and add it to your profile's PATH:

mkdir "$home\appdata\local\secretcli"
wget -O "$home/appdata/local/secretcli/secretcli.exe" https://github.com/scrtlabs/SecretNetwork/releases/latest/download/secretcli-Windows
$old_path = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('path', 'user');
$new_path = $old_path + ';' + "$home\appdata\local\secretcli"
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('path', $new_path,'User');

Afterwards, restart the terminal and test the installation with the following command:

secretcli version

Set the file name to secretcli and set it as executable

mv secretcli-macOS secretcli
chmod 755 secretcli

Set the file name to secretcli and set it as executable

mv secretcli-macOS secretcli
chmod 755 secretcli

Now it's time to learn how to compile and deploy your first smart contract 🎉

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