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Generic Build Notes

BitBlocks Core uses the Autotools build system. The normal build flow is:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j$(nproc)
make install # optional

Build documentation

Required tools

Install a C++ compiler, Autotools, pkg-config, and the development libraries for OpenSSL and Boost. Wallet builds also require Berkeley DB 4.8 for compatibility with existing wallet files.

Ubuntu and Debian example:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf automake pkg-config libssl-dev libboost-all-dev

Berkeley DB 4.8

Wallet compatibility depends on Berkeley DB 4.8. One commonly used packaging source is the external ppa:pivx/berkeley-db4 repository:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pivx/berkeley-db4
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

If you do not need compatibility with existing BDB 4.8 wallet files, you can build with a newer Berkeley DB by passing --with-incompatible-bdb to ./configure.

Building with depends

The depends tree can build pinned dependencies for local and cross builds:

cd depends
make -j4
cd ..
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix="$PWD/depends/$(./depends/config.guess)"
make -j$(nproc)

For cross-compilation, pass a host triplet to make, then use the generated prefix with ./configure. See Windows build notes for a Windows example.

Useful configure flags

./configure --without-gui      # daemon and CLI only
./configure --disable-wallet   # no wallet support
./configure --with-incompatible-bdb

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