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Imran Bashir
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Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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The Solidity compiler

Compilers are used to convert high-level contract source code into the format that the Ethereum execution environment understands. The Solidity compiler, solc, is the most common one in use.

solc converts from a high-level Solidity language into Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) bytecode so that it can be executed on the blockchain by the EVM.

Installing solc

solc can be installed on a Linux Ubuntu operating system using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install solc

If Personal Package Archives (PPAs) are not already installed, those can be installed by running the following commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
$ sudo apt-get update

To install solc on macOS, execute the following commands:

$ brew tap ethereum/ethereum

This command will add the Ethereum repository to the list of brew formulas:

$ brew install solidity

This command will produce a long output and may take a few minutes to complete...

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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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