Truffle Solidity Compiler Error – Fixed
by Alexandra Kropova from Mammoth Interactive
Trying to Compile a Solidity Smart Contract?
Getting the error message “Truffle is currently using solc 0.5.16, but one or more of your contracts specify “pragma solidity ^0.8.0″. Please update your truffle config or pragma statement(s).” ?
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Your solution:
Open your truffle-config.js file.
Under the section ‘compilers’, change the compiler version to the one requested in the error message.
compilers: {
solc: {
version: "0.8.0"
}
}
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