# Recommended Hardware & Software

**Setup**

* We recommend using Linux or MacOS
* A wallet with the WAN you wish to stake + a small amount of WAN for service fees.
* You may use a cloud server such as AWS or run on bare metal. See our AWS getting started guide for more information.
* If using AWS, we recommend AWS m4.xlarge with the following configuration
  * CPU: 4
  * RAM:16G
  * Disk 600G

*For manual setup you also need:*

* [<mark style="color:blue;">Docker</mark>](https://www.docker.com/)
* Install Golang from <https://golang.org/> and set GO environment variables `$GOPATH` and `$GOROOT` if you want to build from source code.

To get the most recent GWAN code from github：

```
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/wanchain/

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/wanchain/

$ git clone https://github.com/wanchain/go-wanchain.git

$ cd go-wanchain

$ git checkout develop

$ git pull

$ make
```

GWAN is compiled in this directory：**build/bin/gwan**