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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2014-11-19 16:15:39 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2014-11-19 16:31:28 +0100
commitb5d1b1092998bc95313856d535c632ea5a8f9104 (patch)
tree01fe0d4349b9ce708da9a0b6aa6684f0e0090c72 /doc
parentb7fe9cd04cd2756b1ce40b668d25a130441ba847 (diff)
doc: add libgmp dependency for secp256k1
Also reorganize the document a bit.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/build-unix.md43
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md
index fb5eaec431..e03dc8181a 100644
--- a/doc/build-unix.md
+++ b/doc/build-unix.md
@@ -27,31 +27,25 @@ This will build bitcoin-qt as well if the dependencies are met.
Dependencies
---------------------
+These dependencies are required:
+
Library | Purpose | Description
------------|------------------|----------------------
libssl | SSL Support | Secure communications
- libdb4.8 | Berkeley DB | 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
-turned off by default. See the configure options for upnp behavior desired:
+ libgmp | secp256k1 | Arbitrary-precision arithmetic (version >= 3.1)
- --without-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
+Optional dependencies:
-Licenses of statically linked libraries:
- Berkeley DB New BSD license with additional requirement that linked
- software must be free open source
- Boost MIT-like license
- miniupnpc New (3-clause) BSD license
+ Library | Purpose | Description
+ ------------|------------------|----------------------
+ miniupnpc | UPnP Support | Firewall-jumping support
+ libdb4.8 | Berkeley DB | Wallet storage (only needed when wallet enabled)
+ qt | GUI | GUI toolkit (only needed when GUI enabled)
+ protobuf | Payments in GUI | Data interchange format used for payment protocol (only needed when GUI enabled)
+ libqrencode | QR codes in GUI | Optional for generating QR codes (only needed when GUI enabled)
-- For the versions used in the release, see doc/release-process.md under *Fetch and build inputs*.
+For the versions used in the release, see [release-process.md](release-process.md) under *Fetch and build inputs*.
System requirements
--------------------
@@ -64,7 +58,7 @@ Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian
----------------------------------------------
Build requirements:
- sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev
+ sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev libgmp-dev
for Ubuntu 12.04 and later or Debian 7 and later libboost-all-dev has to be installed:
@@ -129,6 +123,17 @@ symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.
miniupnpc
---------
+
+[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
+turned off by default. See the configure options for upnp behavior desired:
+
+ --without-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
+
+To build:
+
tar -xzvf miniupnpc-1.6.tar.gz
cd miniupnpc-1.6
make