I recently performed native build from source of Bitcoin using the latest tag on
macOS Sierra 10.12.5. I wanted to share a synopsis of my experience with other macOS & Unix developers.
I am not sure the best way to share this information with the Bitcoin dev community, hence this post. Comments/feedback greatly appreciated, thank you.
Firstly, I did find following documents quite useful:
From these I installed the following Homebrew formulas:
- autoconf
- berkeley-db@4
- libevent
- m4
- pkg-config
- qt
- automake
- boost
- libtool
- openssl
- protobuf
Importantly, macOS Sierra 10.12.5 comes with pre-installed versions of both m4 and libttool binaries (both installed in /usr/bin). So for compatibility with the rest of the standard Unix Auto-Tools (pkg-config, automake, & autoconf) we install and reference Homebrew versions of m4 and libtool, overriding the original binaries.
Attention: Important Notes:- Unless ACLOCAL_PATH is set, configure will fail with the following error:
configure: error: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro not found. Please install pkg-config and re-run autogen.sh. - Unless DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is set neither bitcoind or bitcoin-cli will be able to locate dependant dynamic shared platform libraries.
Setting ACLOCAL_PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH as below correct these issues.
What follows are macOS bash .profile environment settings for the following environment variables:| Env Var: | Purpose: |
| CPPFLAGS | GXX compile include path. |
| LDFLAGS | GXX linker lib path. |
| bitcoin_enable_qt | Build bitcoin-cli for "full node" capability. |
| ACLOCAL_PATH | m4 macro definition of PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG & others. |
| DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH | macOS runtime dyn lib path. |
| MANPATH | man pages. |
export MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:$MANPATH
brew_pkgconf=/usr/local/opt/pkg-config
PATH=${brew_pkgconf}/bin:$PATH
CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${brew_pkgconf}/share/aclocal"
m4path="${brew_pkgconf}/share/aclocal"
MANPATH=${brew_pkgconf}/share/man:$MANPATH
brew_libtool=/usr/local/opt/libtool
PATH=${brew_libtool}/bin:$PATH
dyld_library_path=${brew_libtool}/lib:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}
LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${brew_libtool}/lib"
CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${brew_libtool}/include"
m4path="${brew_libtool}/share/aclocal:$m4path"
MANPATH=${brew_libtool}/share/man:$MANPATH
brew_m4=/usr/local/opt/m4
PATH=${brew_m4}/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=${brew_m4}/share/man:$MANPATH
brew_autoconf=/usr/local/opt/autoconf
PATH=${brew_autoconf}/bin:$PATH
# m4path="${brew_autoconf}/share/autoconf/autoconf:${brew_autoconf}/share/autoconf/m4sugar:$m4path"
export MANPATH=${brew_autoconf}/share/man:$MANPATH
brew_automake=/usr/local/opt/automake
PATH=${brew_automake}/bin:$PATH
m4path="${brew_automake}/share/aclocal-1.15:$m4path"
MANPATH=${brew_automake}/share/man:$MANPATH
brew_openssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl
PATH=${brew_openssl}/bin:$PATH
dyld_library_path=${brew_openssl}/lib:${dyld_library_path}
LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${brew_openssl}/lib" # -lcrypto -lssl"
CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${brew_openssl}/include"
MANPATH=${brew_openssl}/share/man:$MANPATH
brew_boost=/usr/local/opt/boost
PATH=${brew_boost}/bin:$PATH
dyld_library_path=${brew_boost}/lib:${dyld_library_path}
export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${brew_boost}/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${brew_boost}/include/boost"
brew_libevent=/usr/local/opt/libevent
PATH=${brew_libevent}/bin:$PATH
dyld_library_path=${brew_libevent}/lib:${dyld_library_path}
LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${brew_libevent}/lib"
CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${brew_libevent}/include"
MANPATH=${brew_libevent}/share/man:$MANPATH
brew_bdb=/usr/local/opt/berkeley-db@4
PATH=${brew_bdb}/bin:$PATH
dyld_library_path=${brew_bdb}/lib:${dyld_library_path}
LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${brew_bdb}/lib"
CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${brew_bdb}/include"
brew_qt=/usr/local/opt/qt
PATH=${brew_qt}/bin:$PATH
dyld_library_path=${brew_qt}/lib:${dyld_library_path}
export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${brew_qt}/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${brew_qt}/include"
brew_protobuf=/usr/local/opt/protobuf
PATH=${brew_protobuf}/bin:$PATH
dyld_library_path=${brew_protobuf}/lib:${dyld_library_path}
LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${brew_protobuf}/lib"
CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${brew_protobuf}/include"
# Add brew "cmake" formula *last* to environment,
brew_cmake=/usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.9.0
PATH=$PATH:${brew_cmake}/bin
MANPATH=${brew_cmake}/share/man:$MANPATH
#Note: ACLOCAL_PATH which points to all important m4 macro definition of PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG & others..
export ACLOCAL_PATH=$m4path
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
export bitcoin_enable_qt=yes
my_prefix=/Users/coinadm/local
export PATH=${my_prefix}/bin:$PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=${my_prefix}/lib:${dyld_library_path}
export LDFLAGS
export CPPFLAGS
export MANPATH
alias ez="env | egrep 'FLAG|LIB' | sort"
alias godev="cd ~/CLionProjects/bitcoin-ghc1"
alias findmakes="find . -name Makefile.in | xargs -I {} -t ls -l {}"
alias myag="./autogen.sh --with-gui=yes"
alias myconf="./configure --prefix=${my_prefix} --with-gui=yes"
# godev
# make clean
# find . -name Makefile.in | xargs -I {} -t rm -f {}"
# rm configure
# myag
# myconf
# make
# make install
