[Solved] Compile issues with a Feathercoin Fork
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My research says it’s easier to set up a VM and compile a windows executable inside a linux environment than it is to compile on windows directly.
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@ironsniper Did you sort out that problem with the windows compile?
If not I’ll PM Lizhi - see if he’s come across that problem, he’s doing the most with the windows compile recently.
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Hi Ironsniper,
I’ve been ill so not followed what went on, I see a few people worked on your problem, did you get a good compile result in the end?
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@ironsniper said:
hey all i am not new to compiling on windows and mac and linux, however i am new to compiling the newer 0.9.x source code, i am trying to compile feathercoin wallet and it will not compile the qt wallet cause it is missing something called zxing, where do i get this and how do i tell msys on windows to see it so it can use it to compile this wallet?
What is missing on your system is the zxing library, which is used to generate qr codes inside the wallet.
You can google ‘libzxing’ or ‘zxing library’ to get the library files for your operating system, or simply run the configure script with the parameter ‘–with-qrcode=no’
./configure --help gives all options and parameters
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Hi Ironsniper, did you have any luck compiling?
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I am also having issues compiling on linux. After finally getting zxing installed, I am now getting several of these errors.
./zxing/LuminanceSource.h:31:13: error: ‘const int zxing::LuminanceSource::width’ is private
Advice? Guidance? Beer?
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@UnklAdM said:
I am also having issues compiling on linux. After finally getting zxing installed, I am now getting several of these errors.
./zxing/LuminanceSource.h:31:13: error: ‘const int zxing::LuminanceSource::width’ is private
Advice? Guidance? Beer?
what linux are you running ? what version of libzxing did ya install ?
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@UnklAdM I used to have the same problems but I have compiled successfully. Make width and height in the source file public and that is it, build will pass and wallet will work :)
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Btw this is the problem when you compile on linux (depends on zxing - i have take the source of some another project on github - forgot its name) only and is caused when you want to build the qt wallet.Cheers :)
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Thanks… I got this working on Centos 7, here’s what I did…
As advised, I made width and height public in ./zxing/LuminanceSource.h
As Centos 7 (and Red Hat) lack the ec_curve cipher in openssl, I applied this patch to src/key.c
http://pastebin.com/raw/iFYJsgus
Then I manually replaced all remaining occurrences of
EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name(NID_secp256k1);
with
EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name_NID_secp256k1();
Surely an ugly hack, but the wallet is now syncing…
;)
Note: I cloned zxing from https://github.com/glassechidna/zxing-cpp.git into the Feathercoin subdir then
cd src/qt
ln -s …/…/zxing-cpp/core/src/zxing zxing -
Glad to see, that you made it :)
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hey everyone i just saw all the replies here, the person i was compiling for gave up and switched to a different source code which did not use the zxing, but now i have someone else asking me to compile a wallet and am getting this error again
first to answer the old question, no i was NEVER able to compile it and i was NEVER able to find a copy of zxing that mingw would find or use, i have also NEVER been able to compile windows wallets on linux which is why i compile on windows wallets on windows and mac on mac etc
i have also tried using the --with-qrcode=no and it does not work, if anyone has any advice they can give please let me know.
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I don’t have windows, but we have been doing a lot of work with version 0.9.3.2 around dependencies. I’ve updated some build instructions. You could see if that helps.
https://github.com/wrapperband/Feathercoin/tree/0.9.3.2/doc
I know our Dev Lizhi is managing to compile the Windows version, however, he is in China, so we’ll need to wait for him to be able to respond.
If you try the Windows build and checkout 0.9.3.2 (with some build improvements over 0.9.3.1) - let us know what happens, so we can try and duplicate your issue.
It is backwardly compatible and a proposed maintenance release soon.
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@wrapper said:
I don’t have windows, but we have been doing a lot of work with version 0.9.3.2 around dependencies. I’ve updated some build instructions. You could see if that helps.
https://github.com/wrapperband/Feathercoin/tree/0.9.3.2/doc
I know our Dev Lizhi is managing to compile the Windows version, however, he is in China, so we’ll need to wait for him to be able to respond.
If you try the Windows build and checkout 0.9.3.2 (with some build improvements over 0.9.3.1) - let us know what happens, so we can try and duplicate your issue.
It is backwardly compatible and a proposed maintenance release soon.
i went through all the links in the link you posted and the only time i saw zxing in there was for unix/linux and nothing in there about compiling on windows, im compiling using mingw and msys
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@ironsniper I don’t have Windows. Sorry it didn’t help.
There are specific Windows build instructions, if you follow those and tell us where it went wrong we can try to help (though), it “all doesn’t work” doesn’t really help find a solution.
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if there is one just for windows i am not seeing it and nothing with zxing in it except for the linux/unix ones and the error comes up during the ./configure and it complains about not finding zxing no matter what i try
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There is a little bug in the configure script. It should not enable use_qr if no zxing is found:
--with-qrcode enable QR code support (default is yes if qt is enabled and libzxing is found)Run ‘configure --with-qrcode=no’ and it will compile.
The wallet will be fully functional, only no qr codes can be scanned.
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@Wellenreiter said:
There is a little bug in the configure script. It should not enable use_qr if no zxing is found:
--with-qrcode enable QR code support (default is yes if qt is enabled and libzxing is found)Run ‘configure --with-qrcode=no’ and it will compile.
The wallet will be fully functional, only no qr codes can be scanned.
i have tried --with-qrcode=no and it still tries to find zxing
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Is it during the configure step or the compile?
It seems that you are using a different code than I do.
can you check with ‘./configure --help’ if there is a --with-zxing=no option?
Also for me to better understand, so please forgive that question:
what exactly did you do to compile the code?
The normal way is to download or clone the code from github and then run
- ./autogen.sh
- ./configure [–options]
- make
By the way, if you are compiling for others, not for yourself, why not using the ‘official’ binary, that is available from the resources section of www.feathercoin.com?
The direct link to the downlaod is https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/releases/download/v0.8.7.3/feathercoin-qt.exe
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@Wellenreiter said in compile issues:
Is it during the configure step or the compile?
It seems that you are using a different code than I do.
can you check with ‘./configure --help’ if there is a --with-zxing=no option?
Also for me to better understand, so please forgive that question:
what exactly did you do to compile the code?
The normal way is to download or clone the code from github and then run
- ./autogen.sh
- ./configure [–options]
- make
By the way, if you are compiling for others, not for yourself, why not using the ‘official’ binary, that is available from the resources section of www.feathercoin.com?
The direct link to the downlaod is https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/releases/download/v0.8.7.3/feathercoin-qt.exe
i am not compiling feathercoin its a coin based off the feathercoin source code, there is also no option --with-zxing=no and this is the error i get during the configure part
configure: WARNING: libzxing not found; coin-qt frontend will not be built
i am sure if i could find the correct one and figure out where to put the files so it will see it i am sure i can get it to compile
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I’m not sure quite what to say, it would be impossible for even Albert Einstein to diagnose a problem without the relevant information.
I pointed out we need to know what was done and the output to help, it turns out it wasn’t even a Feathercoin build? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- If you point us to the Github, and give us the output, someone might be able to help.
- The subject should have been brought up in an “Off Topic” thread, or at least in “Support” with the full details of which coin it is. Members have helped other coins before (Litecoin, Phoenixcoin, Catcoin, UFOcoin, etc)
- You could apply to add a Coin-Qt in the Alternative coins section of the forum and build up some community support there.
