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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-05-02 18:14:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2014-05-02 18:14:39 +0200 |
| commit | 3e578aa9b981c5fdf6e429f20ab6e27dbaab62b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 12348d795793fee011adf46e28fbf0580b963eb2 /doc | |
| parent | 9eb1e1e8ce2ba5c2d0bb94b7fd9c028a5da0978a (diff) | |
| parent | bfb154e9fcfdbbd17aaef2e6e36542529cc8d6fd (diff) | |
Merge pull request #4114
bfb154e Update build instructions for Berkeley DB (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
d0a2e2e Log BerkeleyDB version at startup (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/build-unix.md | 36 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md index f990b69c84..0f6f70aa2d 100644 --- a/doc/build-unix.md +++ b/doc/build-unix.md @@ -133,17 +133,33 @@ miniupnpc Berkeley DB ----------- -You need Berkeley DB 4.8. If you have to build it yourself: - - wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz' - echo '12edc0df75bf9abd7f82f821795bcee50f42cb2e5f76a6a281b85732798364ef db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz' | sha256sum -c - # -> db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz: OK - tar -xzvf db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz - cd build_unix/ - ../dist/configure --enable-cxx - make - sudo make install +It is recommended to use Berkeley DB 4.8. If you have to build it yourself: + +```bash +BITCOIN_ROOT=$(pwd) + +# Pick some path to install BDB to, here we create a directory within the bitcoin directory +BDB_PREFIX="${BITCOIN_ROOT}/db4" +mkdir -p $BDB_PREFIX + +# Fetch the source and verify that it is not tampered with +wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz' +echo '12edc0df75bf9abd7f82f821795bcee50f42cb2e5f76a6a281b85732798364ef db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz' | sha256sum -c +# -> db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz: OK +tar -xzvf db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz + +# Build the library and install to our prefix +cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/ +# Note: Do a static build so that it can be embedded into the exectuable, instead of having to find a .so at runtime +../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=$BDB_PREFIX +make install + +# Configure Bitcoin Core to use our own-built instance of BDB +cd $BITCOIN_ROOT +./configure (other args...) LDFLAGS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/" CPPFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include/" +``` +**Note**: You only need Berkeley DB if the wallet is enabled (see the section *Disable-Wallet mode* below). Boost ----- |