Bitcoin v0.2.0 BETA Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/). This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). UNIX BUILD NOTES ================ Dependencies ------------ sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev sudo apt-get install libssl-dev sudo apt-get install libdb4.7-dev sudo apt-get install libdb4.7++-dev sudo apt-get install libboost-dev There is currently no libwxgtk2.8-ansi-dev debian package for Karmic. libwxgtk2.8-dev is the "unicode" build, but for wxWidgets 2.8 "unicode" means wchar, not UTF-8. wchar wxString doesn't convert to std::string. In wxWidgets 2.9, unicode is UTF-8 and that's the only version. You need to download wxWidgets from http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ and build it yourself. See the build instructions and configure parameters below. Licenses of statically linked libraries: wxWidgets LGPL 2.1 with very liberal exceptions Berkeley DB New BSD license with additional requirement that linked software must be free open source Boost MIT-like license Versions used in this release: GCC 4.3.3 OpenSSL 0.9.8k wxWidgets 2.8.9 Berkeley DB 4.7.25.NC Boost 1.40.0 Notes ----- The UI layout is edited with wxFormBuilder. The project file is uiproject.fbp. It generates uibase.cpp and uibase.h, which define base classes that do the rote work of constructing all the UI elements. The release is built with GCC and then "strip bitcoin" to strip the debug symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%. wxWidgets --------- cd /usr/local/wxWidgets-2.8.9 or 2.9.0 mkdir buildgtk cd buildgtk ../configure --with-gtk --enable-debug --disable-shared --enable-monolithic make su make install ldconfig Boost ----- If you want to build Boost yourself, cd /usr/local/boost_1_40_0 su ./bootstrap.sh ./bjam install