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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2013-10-15 14:34:12 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2013-10-15 15:58:43 +0200
commit29a414632725431f0947fae60f239946021f9a60 (patch)
treee01cba1f18d39275523de46bc887e28b281776fe /doc
parentf0c25cf6ecb226d2a82d04d73af44ca6bc0f3efa (diff)
doc: remove readme-qt.md
Now that autotools is used as a build system there is nothing special about building the GUI anymore. Merge the salvageable parts into build-unix.md
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-rw-r--r--doc/build-unix.md31
-rw-r--r--doc/readme-qt.md101
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 103 deletions
diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md
index 579341d2d9..4da7d846ea 100644
--- a/doc/build-unix.md
+++ b/doc/build-unix.md
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Dependencies
libdb4.8 Berkeley DB Blockchain & wallet storage
libboost Boost C++ Library
miniupnpc UPnP Support Optional firewall-jumping support
+ qt GUI GUI toolkit
+ protobuf Payments in GUI Data interchange format used for payment protocol
+ libqrencode QR codes in GUI Optional for generating QR codes
[miniupnpc](http://miniupnp.free.fr/) may be used for UPnP port mapping. It can be downloaded from [here](
http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/). UPnP support is compiled in and
@@ -46,21 +49,25 @@ Licenses of statically linked libraries:
- Berkeley DB 4.8.30.NC
- Boost 1.37
- miniupnpc 1.6
+- qt 4.8.3
+- protobuf 2.5.0
+- libqrencode 3.2.0
Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian
----------------------------------------------
Build requirements:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
+ sudo apt-get install libtool autotools-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
-for Ubuntu 12.04:
+for Ubuntu 12.04 and later:
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
db4.8 packages are available [here](https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin).
- Ubuntu precise has packages for libdb5.1-dev and libdb5.1++-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.
for other Ubuntu & Debian:
@@ -74,6 +81,26 @@ Optional:
sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev (see --with-miniupnpc and --enable-upnp-default)
+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 is necessary to build the GUI.
+
+To build with Qt 4 you need the following:
+
+ apt-get install libqt4-dev libprotobuf-dev
+
+For Qt 5 you need the following:
+
+ apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5 libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev
+
+libqrencode (optional) can be installed with:
+
+ apt-get install libqrencode-dev
+
+Once these are installed, they will be found by configure and a bitcoin-qt executable will be
+built by default.
Notes
-----
diff --git a/doc/readme-qt.md b/doc/readme-qt.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5aa849af10..0000000000
--- a/doc/readme-qt.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-Bitcoin-Qt Readme
-===============================
-Contains build and configuration instructions for Bitcoin-Qt (Qt4 GUI for Bitcoin).
-
-Build Instructions
----------------------
-
-### Debian
-
-
-First, make sure that the required packages for Qt4 development of your
-distribution are installed, these are
-
-
-
-for Debian and Ubuntu <= 11.10 :
-
-
- apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev build-essential libboost-dev libboost-system-dev \
- libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev \
- libssl-dev libdb4.8++-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
-
-for Ubuntu >= 12.04 (please read the 'Berkely DB version warning' below):
-
- apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev build-essential libboost-dev libboost-system-dev \
- libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev \
- libssl-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
-
-For Qt 5 you need the following, otherwise you get an error with lrelease when running qmake:
-
-
- apt-get install qt5-qmake libqt5gui5 libqt5core5 libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev-tools
-
-Once these are installed, they will be found by configure and bitcoin-qt will be
-built by default.
-
-
-### Mac OS X
-
-* Download and install the [Qt Mac OS X SDK](https://qt-project.org/downloads). It is recommended to also install Apple's Xcode with UNIX tools.
-* Download and install either [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org/) or [HomeBrew](http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/).
-* Execute the following commands in a terminal to get the dependencies using MacPorts
-
- sudo port selfupdate
- sudo port install boost db48 miniupnpc protobuf-cpp
-
-* Execute the following commands in a terminal to get the dependencies using HomeBrew:
-
- brew update
- brew install boost miniupnpc openssl berkeley-db4 protobuf
-
-Build Configuration Options
----------------------
-
-### UPnP port forwarding
-
-UPnP support is compiled in when possible and turned off by default. See the
-configure options for upnp behavior desired:
-
- --with-miniupnpc No UPnP support miniupnp not required
- --disable-upnp-default (the default) UPnP support turned off by default at runtime
- --enable-upnp-default UPnP support turned on by default at runtime
-
-### Notification support for recent (k)ubuntu versions
-
-DBUS support is enabled by default if dependencies are met.
-
-See the --with-qtdbus configure option.
-
-### Generation of QR codes
-
-[libqrencode](http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/) may be used to generate QRCode images for payment requests.
-
-QR code support is enabled by default if dependencies are met.
-
-See the --with-qrencode configure option.
-
-Warnings
----------------------
-
-### Berkely DB Version Warning
-
-
-A warning for people using the *static binary* version of Bitcoin on a Linux/UNIX-ish system (tl;dr: **Berkely DB databases are not forward compatible**).
-
-The static binary version of Bitcoin is linked against libdb4.8 (see also [this Debian issue](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621425)).
-
-Now the nasty thing is that databases from 5.X are not compatible with 4.X.
-
-If the globally installed development package of Berkely DB installed on your system is 5.X, any source you build yourself will be linked against that. The first time you run with a 5.X version the database will be upgraded, and 4.X cannot open the new format. This means that you cannot go back to the old statically linked version without significant hassle!
-
-### Ubuntu 11.10 Warning
-
-
-Ubuntu 11.10 has a package called 'qt-at-spi' installed by default. At the time of writing, having that package installed causes bitcoin-qt to crash intermittently. The issue has been reported as [launchpad bug 857790](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt-at-spi/+bug/857790), but
-isn't yet fixed.
-
-Until the bug is fixed, you can remove the qt-at-spi package to work around the problem, though this will presumably disable screen reader functionality for Qt apps:
-
- sudo apt-get remove qt-at-spi
-