Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bitcoin Developers Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file COPYING 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) and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard. Mac OS X bitcoind build instructions Laszlo Hanyecz Douglas Huff See readme-qt.rst for instructions on building Bitcoin-Qt, the graphical user interface. Tested on 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 intel. PPC is not supported because it's big-endian. All of the commands should be executed in Terminal.app.. it's in /Applications/Utilities You need to install XCode with all the options checked so that the compiler and everything is available in /usr not just /Developer. XCode should be available on your OS X install DVD, but if not, you can get the current version from https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ 1. Clone the github tree to get the source code: git clone git@github.com:bitcoin/bitcoin.git bitcoin 2. Download and install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/ 2a. (for 10.7 Lion) Edit /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf and uncomment "build_arch i386" 3. Install dependencies from MacPorts sudo port install boost db48 openssl miniupnpc Optionally install qrencode (and set USE_QRCODE=1): sudo port install qrencode 4. Now you should be able to build bitcoind: cd bitcoin/src make -f makefile.osx Run: ./bitcoind --help # for a list of command-line options. Run ./bitcoind -daemon # to start the bitcoin daemon. Run ./bitcoind help # When the daemon is running, to get a list of RPC commands