Title: [Guide] Human way to compile altcoin for Ubuntu & Debian or Windows 32 & 64bit Post by: dr4ge on July 04, 2018, 04:34:01 PM Guide to compile Bitcoin | Dash | other altcoins and generate Ubuntu & Debian or Windows executables I will presume that you are using Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS because thats what I use to compile executables. You can also use other Linux distribution but this guide is related to debian based Linux system. Reason for writing this Guide: The reason behind this guide are those who find it difficult to compile source code and generate windows .exe files, also covers the Ubuntu & debian build for bitcoin or dash (but process also follows the same for most of altcoins). I will try my best to keep it simple and humanly :) Note: C++ compilers are memory-hungry. It is recommended to have at least 1.5 GB of memory available when compiling <coin>Core Before We Build You will only be able to build when dependencies are met! Step1: Build requirements: sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils Step2: installing required Boost library files: sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev Step3: BerkeleyDB is required for the wallet: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev Step 4 Miniupnpc: sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev Step5: Dependencies for the GUI Qt5 sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler sudo apt-get install libqrencode-dev Step6 Cross-compilation sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config bsdmainutils curl
Now that you have installed all the requirements the way it has been mentions in above steps, your compiler is ready to build the executable for Ubuntu & Debian or Window x86_32bit & x86_64bit. :) Tobuild: Note: clone coin repository separately for each build For Ubuntu & Debian: git clone https://github.com/<username>/<repo.git> cd <repo> ./autogen.sh ./configure make make install # optional (it will install the binaries to /usr/local/bin For Windows x86_32bit: git clone https://github.com/<username>/<repo.git> cd <repo>/depends make HOST=i686-w64-mingw32 cd .. ./autogen.sh CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/i686-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure -with-gui --disable-zmq --prefix=/ make For Windows x86_64bit: git clone https://github.com/<username>/<repo.git> cd <repo>/depends make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 cd .. ./autogen.sh CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure -with-gui --disable-zmq --prefix=/ make If all the steps above went as expected!, you now will have the executables ready for your desired operating system. I hope this guide has helped you to learn some new things. Feel free to ask questions if you don't understand a step, i will support you if needed :) Cheers! Dr4ge. Title: Re: [Guide] Human way to compile altcoin for Ubuntu & Debian or Windows 32 & 64bit Post by: DZPrince on September 15, 2018, 02:37:16 AM Hi Dr4ge,
I have followed your steps not skipping a step for my alt coin; however, when I was at the step of compiling, I did see a depends folder which does not exist for my altcoin. The make file did not work. I am running an Ubuntu vm on Windows 10 to compile a Windows version. I do however have a .pro file in my altcoin directory. Would I have to use qmake instead? Title: Re: [Guide] Human way to compile altcoin for Ubuntu & Debian or Windows 32 & 64bit Post by: DZPrince on September 15, 2018, 08:12:34 PM Hi Dr4ge, I have followed your steps not skipping a step for my alt coin; however, when I was at the step of compiling, I did see a depends folder which does not exist for my altcoin. The make file did not work. I am running an Ubuntu vm on Windows 10 to compile a Windows version. I do however have a .pro file in my altcoin directory. Would I have to use qmake instead? Most developers provide building-instructions (at least for linux) on their github (often in the readme) Yes. I have tried the steps for my coin without any success in compiling it for Windows. I tried with the Ubuntu app on Windows app then downloading Virtualbox to run a Ubuntu vm to cross compile. I can compile it and run for Mac no problem. I have Googled on how to cross compile the Windows wallet on Windows, using Ubuntu/Debian and also followed those steps. Below is a link to my altcoin project source code on git: https://github.com/skourdes/SproutsClassic I don't know why all the compiling trouble for Windows. |