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author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2015-11-04 12:08:16 +0100 |
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committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2015-11-04 12:08:20 +0100 |
commit | 29c3c43e19caf70ad707ecf6c98d879254ea67cc (patch) | |
tree | e1c10f6e316b15410008c0b83096c625dc658c9e /doc/build-unix.md | |
parent | aca0c00ae1fcd4ddaadf7a35765f763a7bc4b946 (diff) | |
parent | 35bb381435abe0cee661fa169d5d228a464d7632 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #6933
35bb381 build: Improve build instructions (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
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diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md index a9a0028c4a..25867e2993 100644 --- a/doc/build-unix.md +++ b/doc/build-unix.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ UNIX BUILD NOTES ==================== -Some notes on how to build Bitcoin in Unix. +Some notes on how to build Bitcoin Core in Unix. (for OpenBSD specific instructions, see [build-openbsd.md](build-openbsd.md)) @@ -61,49 +61,55 @@ Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian ---------------------------------------------- Build requirements: - sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev + sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev -For Ubuntu 12.04 and later or Debian 7 and later libboost-all-dev has to be installed: +On Ubuntu 15.10+ there are generic names for the individual boost development +packages, so the following can be used to only install necessary parts of +boost: - sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev + apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-base-dev - db4.8 packages are available [here](https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin). - You can add the repository using the following command: +For Ubuntu before 15.10, or Debian 7 and later libboost-all-dev has to be installed: + + sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev + +BerkeleyDB is required for the wallet. db4.8 packages are available [here](https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin). +You can add the repository and install using the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin sudo apt-get update + sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev - Ubuntu 12.04 and later have packages for libdb5.1-dev and libdb5.1++-dev, - but using these will break binary wallet compatibility, and is not recommended. +Ubuntu and Debian have their own libdb-dev and libdb++-dev packages, but these will install +BerkeleyDB 5.1 or later, which break binary wallet compatibility with the distributed executables which +are based on BerkeleyDB 4.8. If you do not care about wallet compatibility, +pass `--with-incompatible-bdb` to configure. -For other Debian & Ubuntu (with ppa): - - sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev +See the section "Disable-wallet mode" to build Bitcoin Core without wallet. Optional: - sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev (see --with-miniupnpc and --enable-upnp-default) + sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev (see --with-miniupnpc and --enable-upnp-default) ZMQ dependencies: sudo apt-get install libzmq3-dev (provides ZMQ API 4.x) - Dependencies for the GUI: Ubuntu & Debian ----------------------------------------- If you want to build Bitcoin-Qt, make sure that the required packages for Qt development -are installed. Either Qt 4 or Qt 5 are necessary to build the GUI. +are installed. Either Qt 5 or Qt 4 are necessary to build the GUI. If both Qt 4 and Qt 5 are installed, Qt 4 will be used. Pass `--with-gui=qt5` to configure to choose Qt5. To build without GUI pass `--without-gui`. -To build with Qt 4 you need the following: +To build with Qt 5 (recommended) you need the following: - sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler + sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler -For Qt 5 you need the following: +Alternatively, to build with Qt 4 you need the following: - sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler + sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode (optional) can be installed with: |