[ANN] cbitcoin 1.0 Alpha 4 Released.

[deadserious]

cbitcoin is an open-source bitcoin library written in C99.

is it a Dynamic Shared library (dso/dylib/dll) ?

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[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Well, just wanted to come back and say that libevent appears to officially support Windows. Hell, there was even a libmemcached v0.42 port for Windows and then I was able to port PushPool to Windows.

[MatthewLM]

a little bit of btc love coming your way mate - I don't even develop but I can see the benefit of this being in the community, so thanks for spending the time on it.

Thank you.

is it a Dynamic Shared library (dso/dylib/dll) ?

The build script compiles shared/dynamic libraries for Linux and OSX. There is no Windows support yet. You can build or use the source code any way you want of-course.

Well, just wanted to come back and say that libevent appears to officially support Windows. Hell, there was even a libmemcached v0.42 port for Windows and then I was able to port PushPool to Windows.

Though cbitcoin will likely not be windows friendly. It would be good for any Windows developers to see if they can get it to work in Windows. I understand that the Windows C compiler doesn't support C99 so that will be a problem, though the code can be modified for C89 to compile for Windows or some other compiler can be used if it exists.

[evoorhees]

Small donation sent, keep up the great work!

[mcorlett]

Nice work, and congratulations on the release!

[MatthewLM]

Thanks to both of you.

I'm working on the full validating node software now. Somewhat soon I should commit some code to https://github.com/MatthewLM/BitEagle-FullNode This should aid with the testing of cbitcoin as I code the components for BitEagle.

[Atlas]

a little bit of btc love coming your way mate - I don't even develop but I can see the benefit of this being in the community, so thanks for spending the time on it.

Thank you.

is it a Dynamic Shared library (dso/dylib/dll) ?

The build script compiles shared/dynamic libraries for Linux and OSX. There is no Windows support yet. You can build or use the source code any way you want of-course.

Well, just wanted to come back and say that libevent appears to officially support Windows. Hell, there was even a libmemcached v0.42 port for Windows and then I was able to port PushPool to Windows.

Though cbitcoin will likely not be windows friendly.

I don't think people should be storing and accessing Bitcoins through a Windows operating system anyways, especially with an NSA backdoor.

[MatthewLM]

1.0 Alpha 2 is now available for download: http://cbitcoin.com.

I removed some include directives that should not be there. I fixed some warnings by changing the services bitfield to CBVersionServices and fixed the error handling in the CBNetworkCommunicator code. See commits here: https://github.com/MatthewLM/cbitcoin/commits/alpha

[kangasbros]

BTC sent. Very good project, especially as people have been complaining about the satoshi client for ages...

[MatthewLM]

Thank you very much for the donation.

people have been complaining about the satoshi client for ages...

I cannot say I'll be able to satisfy every need and complaint but I am all ears to suggestions and comments about bitcoin.

[finkleshnorts]

Very cool, 0.5 BTC (plus some random decimals to clean up my wallet) sent.

[MatthewLM]

Thanks, I'm sure those random digits will come in handy. 

I've got some code up for the fully validating node software: https://github.com/MatthewLM/BitEagle-FullNode

Hopefully that will come along smoothly.

[MatthewLM]

Alpha 3 is released. In this release the CBAddressManager test is fixed for new version numbers, the README has been improved, an old copyright notice has been removed since it is not needed and a problem with the script interpreter was fixed.

[grondilu]

Damn.  Just noticed this thread is forked.  What the heck I'll cross-post:

To compile your libraries on my 32-bits, debian GNU/linux host, I had to change line 94 of BUILD.py (why not use a makefile, btw?):

Code:

cflags += " -m64"

into:

Code:

cflags += " -m32"

Also, in src/structures/CBBigInt/CBBigInt.c, line 43:

Code:

	for (u_int8_t x = a.length - 1;; x--) { 

into:

Code:

	for (uint8_t x = a.length - 1;; x--) { 

Then all compilation seems fine, but linking failed:
LINKING ./build/bin/libcbitcoin.so
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-flat_namespace’

so I just removed this option.  I hope it's ok.

I want to try to make an interface to this in Perl6, using the NativeCall module.  If I succeed, it would be really cool.

[MatthewLM]

I replied in the other thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80521.msg1231003#msg1231003). The reason I made a thread here is to try and obtain interest from non technical people who do not look at the "Development & Technical Discussion" forum. I don't know what to do really. Should the threads be merged into one thread on one of the forums? I guess that's up to any of the moderators if they so choose.

[WikileaksDude]

0.2 bitcoins sent! will be looking to donate much more next month!

Keep it up 

[MatthewLM]

0.2 bitcoins sent! will be looking to donate much more next month!

Keep it up 

Thank you very much. 

[hazek]

You know what would help to raise you more money MatthewLM? A nice little PR post where you could explain a little bit more about who you are, what are your goals and a donation goal. I'm sure people would be really generous if you could properly reach their awareness. Have you thought about any of this? Would you like some help with that?

[MatthewLM]

I replied to Hazek in a PM and said I need to think more about and plan for the direction and organisation of cbitcoin over the next few weeks. I'm willing to hear any general suggestions people have about the project in the meantime, so do not be hesitant to reply in this thread, PM me or email cbitcoin@thelibertyportal.com if you have anything to say or if you'd like to be involved in any way.

I hope to have more details about my plans reasonably soon, so subscribe to this thread to keep updated.

[MatthewLM]

1.0 Alpha 4 is now available to download: http://cbitcoin.com/

This release fixes issues with the CBBigInt code, an issue with compilation and an issue with CBSubScriptRemoveSignature.