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diff --git a/doc/build-freebsd.md b/doc/build-freebsd.md index 70f5dfc882..d22b6e8383 100644 --- a/doc/build-freebsd.md +++ b/doc/build-freebsd.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ FreeBSD build guide ====================== -(updated for FreeBSD 11.1) +(updated for FreeBSD 12.0) This guide describes how to build bitcoind and command-line utilities on FreeBSD. @@ -10,55 +10,51 @@ This guide does not contain instructions for building the GUI. You will need the following dependencies, which can be installed as root via pkg: -``` +```shell pkg install autoconf automake boost-libs git gmake libevent libtool openssl pkgconf + +git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git ``` In order to run the test suite (recommended), you will need to have Python 3 installed: -``` +```shell pkg install python3 ``` -For the wallet (optional): -``` -./contrib/install_db4.sh `pwd` -export BDB_PREFIX="$PWD/db4" -``` - See [dependencies.md](dependencies.md) for a complete overview. -Download the source code: -``` -git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin +### Building BerkeleyDB + +BerkeleyDB is only necessary for the wallet functionality. To skip this, pass +`--disable-wallet` to `./configure` and skip to the next section. + +```shell +./contrib/install_db4.sh `pwd` +export BDB_PREFIX="$PWD/db4" ``` ## Building Bitcoin Core **Important**: Use `gmake` (the non-GNU `make` will exit with an error): -``` +With wallet: +```shell ./autogen.sh - -./configure # to build with wallet OR -./configure --disable-wallet # to build without wallet +./configure --with-gui=no \ + BDB_LIBS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib -ldb_cxx-4.8" \ + BDB_CFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include" ``` -followed by either: - -``` -gmake +Without wallet: +```shell +./autogen.sh +./configure --with-gui=no --disable-wallet ``` -to build without testing, or +followed by: +```shell +gmake # use -jX here for parallelism +gmake check # Run tests if Python 3 is available ``` -gmake check -``` - -to also run the test suite (recommended, if Python 3 is installed). - -*Note on debugging*: The version of `gdb` installed by default is [ancient and considered harmful](https://wiki.freebsd.org/GdbRetirement). -It is not suitable for debugging a multi-threaded C++ program, not even for getting backtraces. Please install the package `gdb` and -use the versioned gdb command (e.g. `gdb7111`). - |