Build SPDZ-2 on Arch Linux

To build SPDZ-2 on Arch Linux, besides installing necessary packages (mpir, libsodium, etc.), You also need to do following steps:

(1) Add following line in CONFIG.mine:

MY_CFLAGS = -DINSECURE

Otherwise, you will meet errors when executing Scripts/setup-online.sh:

# Scripts/setup-online.sh
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  You are trying to use insecure benchmarking functionality for preprocessing.
You can activate this at compile time by adding -DINSECURE to the compiler options.
Make sure to run make clean as well.
Scripts/setup-online.sh: line 33: 10355 Aborted                 (core dumped) $SPDZROOT/Fake-Offline.x ${players} -lgp ${bits} -lg2 ${g} --default ${default}
dd: failed to open 'Player-Data/Private-Input-0': No such file or directory
dd: failed to open 'Player-Data/Private-Input-1': No such file or directory

(2) Execute make command;

(3) Run Scripts/setup-online.sh;

(4) SPDZ-2 requires python2, but the default python is python3 on Arch Linux. So you need to install python2 manually:

# pacman -S python2

Then modify compile.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python2

Otherwise, you will encounter following errors when running ./compile.py tutorial:

# ./compile.py tutorial
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./compile.py", line 19, in <module>
    import Compiler
  File "/root/SPDZ-2/Compiler/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    import compilerLib, program, instructions, types, library, floatingpoint
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'compilerLib'

Execute ./compile.py tutorial.

Now you can play the example:

# ./Server.x 2 5000 &
# Scripts/run-online.sh tutorial