[Guide] Build FeathercoinD & Feathercoin-QT v0.9.6.1 on Ubuntu

AcidD

Hi All,

This guide is for anyone who wants to build Feathercoind and Feathercoin-QT on Ubuntu and some Ubuntu based distros…

The following guide has been tested on:

Ubtunu 16.04 LTS
Ubuntu 14.04
LinuxMint 17.3

1. Intro + Initial Setup

First we start by updating our OS a little… I used a VMware images from OsBoxes.org for the three above Distros I used for testing.

Note: For this guide, you can find/replace my home directory “/home/acid” to your “/home/YourUser” directory and all the commands should work…I recommend reading each command…but also copy and paste was invented for a reason ;-)

We start by updating the build system OS and then showing the current working directory

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade 

pwd

We then make a new directory to work in and move into it.

acid@osboxes ~ $ pwd
 /home/acid
mkdir FeathercoinBuild && cd FeathercoinBuild

2. Dependencies

Some of these you might already have installed, but I recommend running each line.

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install automake
sudo apt-get install libtool
sudo apt-get install autoconf
sudo apt-get install libdb5.3++-dev
sudo apt-get install libdb++-dev
sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev
sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
sudo apt-get install libqrencode-dev
sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev
sudo apt-get install libqt5opengl5-dev
sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools
sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev
sudo apt-get install pkg-config

Build Berkeley DB v4.8

Note: you are free to use any version you wish, if you are importing an old wallet.dat then it should be the same BDB version as the client you used that wallet.dat file on.

pwd should show /home/$username/FeathercoinBuild

wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
tar -xvf db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix
mkdir -p build
BDB_PREFIX=$(pwd)/build
../dist/configure -disable-shared -enable-cxx -with-pic -prefix=$BDB_PREFIX
make install
cd ../..

Build OpenSSL

pwd should show /home/$username/FeathercoinBuild

mkdir openSSL && cd openSSL
wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1l.tar.gz
tar zxvf openssl-1.0.1l.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.1l
export CFLAGS="-fPIC"
./config --prefix=/home/acid/FeathercoinBuild/openSSL/build shared enable-ec enable-ecdh enable-ecdsa -lanl -ldl
sudo make
sudo make install
cd ../..

Build ZXING

pwd should show /home/$username/FeathercoinBuild

sudo apt-get install cmake 
mkdir zxing && cd zxing 
git clone https://github.com/glassechidna/zxing-cpp.git && cd zxing-cpp
mkdir build && cd build/
export CXXFLAGS="-fPIC"
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fPIC -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=11 -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED=ON ..
make && sudo make install
cd ../../..

Edit a bug in zxing

sudo vi /usr/local/include/zxing/LuminanceSource.h

Edit line 30 from “private:” to “public:” and save

–

GIT was not installed by default soo…

sudo apt-get install git

3. Feathercoin !

Grab the FTC source

pwd should show /home/$username/FeathercoinBuild

git clone https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin.git FTC0961 && cd FTC0961

Note: see where I’ve used the BDB_PREFIX which in the ftc configure command which is the same prefix we used when we compiled berkeleyDB earlier

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/home/acid/FeathercoinBuild/FTCbuild CPPFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include/ -O2" LDFLAGS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib/" PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/acid/FeathercoinBuild/openSSL/build/lib/pkgconfig LIBS=-Wl,-rpath=/home/acid/FeathercoinBuild/openSSL/build/lib SSL_LIBS="/home/acid/FeathercoinBuild/openSSL/build/lib/libssl.a /home/acid/FeathercoinBuild/openSSL/build/lib/libcrypto.a -ldl" --with-gui
make -j 2
make install

You can run Feathercoin-QT like this

cd /home/acid/FeathercoinBuild/FTCbuild/bin
./feathercoin-qt

Note: Your /bin/ directory will contain the following binaries

acid@osboxes ~/FeathercoinBuild/FTCbuild/bin $ ls -lrth
total 398M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 acid acid  77M May 31 19:34 feathercoind
-rwxr-xr-x 1 acid acid  17M May 31 19:34 feathercoin-cli
-rwxr-xr-x 1 acid acid 123M May 31 19:34 feathercoin-qt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 acid acid  79M May 31 19:34 test_feathercoin-qt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 acid acid 104M May 31 19:34 test_feathercoin
acid@osboxes ~/FeathercoinBuild/FTCbuild/bin $

I hope this helps someone. ;-)

Change Log:

July-2017 Updated for Feathercoin 0.9.6.1
May-2017 Removed old bugs/bug fixes
May-2017 Updated Guide for Feathercoin 0.9.6
May-2017 Updated Commands
Updated dependency version libdb5.1++-dev is now libdb5.3++-dev
Updated title to match title convention of other guides I’ve written
Added command sudo apt-get install pkg-config - Thank you @looarn

wrapper

@Aciddude great guide, I’ll test using Wellenreiter’s zxing deb for getting 0.9.3.1 to install on 15.10.

Wellenreiter

@aciddude : Great work :)

It helped me already. I will implement the change in rpcrawtransaction.cpp and build the binary install package, so users can use their package manager to install/update the feathercoin software.

Thanks a lot :)

One remark: did you try to use Berkeley db 5.1, too?
The configure script should search for 5.1,5.0,4.8 in that order.

AcidD

@Wellenreiter said:

@aciddude : Great work :)

It helped me already. I will implement the change in rpcrawtransaction.cpp and build the binary install package, so users can use their package manager to install/update the feathercoin software.

Thanks a lot :)

One remark: did you try to use Berkeley db 5.1, too?
The configure script should search for 5.1,5.0,4.8 in that order.

On my first try I installed Berkeley DB 5.0 but then the configure script complained about “this build wont be portable because of incompatible bdb…so then I went down to 4.8”

This needs a bit of QA though…I don’t think BitMessage worked…everytime I clicked it, nothing happened…or does that have to wait for a full blockchain sync ?

Wellenreiter

The warning about the Berkeley db means, that you can’t copy the block and wallet database to another system, unless it is Berkeley db 5.0 also, but this is true for every version of Berkeley db, so the warning is useless.

In order to use Bitmessage you need to install Bitmessage on your system, preferably using a packet manager. The program simply checks if there is a bitmessage binary in your path and starts Bitmessage as external program. Bitmessage is not integrated in the code.
See bitcoingui.cpp lines 704 - 716

Wellenreiter

Another remark
As far as I know, --disable-shared forced a static build, where all libraries are complied into the binary, what increases the size of the binary and overall memory usage.
For me the compile works without that parameter,too

AcidD

@wrapper - Did you manage to get 15.10 working ? I’m wondering if I should give this a shot and write another guide or maybe you guys can give me something else to do that’s a better use of my time ?

let me know!

wrapper

@aciddude said:
@wrapper - Did you manage to get 15.10 working ? I’m wondering if I should give this a shot and write another guide or maybe you guys can give me something else to do that’s a better use of my time ?

let me know!

If you want to see if you can get the 15.10 compile / test finished, please go ahead.

Unfortunately, I didn’t use a Virtual box and sort of went bit exotic on the dependency checking and crashed out my 15.10 system.

Basically, don’t ever install libqt5-gles-dev, as when you remove it, Kubuntu does not reinstall the kde dependency, libqt5-gles it removed and deleted all the kde dependencies for my desktop.

I’ve ended installing 16.04, which didn’t upgrade well, possibly due to multiple sources in software sources list, so I ended up reinstalling / upgrading. It didn’t update lots of programs, so a bit more work to get my home system back up to speed.

As that happened, also had the cooling backing plate failed on my NSGminer R9 290 test computer. I’ve had to search the house for a spare I know I’ve kept for 5 years. So I’ve had to reinstall that, luckily had some thermal paste to re-seat the CPU.

wrapper

@aciddude said:

This needs a bit of QA though…I don’t think BitMessage worked…everytime I clicked it, nothing happened…or does that have to wait for a full blockchain sync ?

@Lizhi added Bitmessage feature

With regard to Bitmessage, I’m just researching some of that, to fix my install with 16.04.

Note : I’ve just tried Bitmessage and failed : so it might be python 2 not installed by default in 16.04 -

Your system may be attempting to run PyBitmessage with python 3. In this case, run python2 ~/PyBitmessage/src/bitmessagemain.py

Bitmessage requires PyQt and openssl to run

Bitmessage dependancies :
sudo apt-get install python openssl git python-qt4

Additionally on 16.04 :
sudo apt install libmessaging-menu-dev

Pull latest Bitmessage updates from :
https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage

Bitmessage has been updated quite a bit if anyone wants to test it :

BM-Gu7Bm8cUYCW1vrnjcgrte5dLnAc6spmx

Note : Bitmessage upgrade - User interface for Bitcoin payments issue #841
https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/issues/841

Wellenreiter

@aciddude
@wrapper

I’ve managed to compile for 15.10 and 16.04.
The binary packages are just build and will be available this evening at
https://software.opensuse.org/package/feathercoin

Remark: 0.9.3.x gui does not compile with qt4. You need to specify configure --with-gui=qt5

UnklAdM

Good information. Thanks everyone!

UnklAdM

Wellenreiter

Forgot to mention: I also patched rpcrawtransaction.cpp to detect boost 1.58, so no modification of the code is needed to compile for Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04

wrapper

Re : Fixing rcprawtransaction.cpp transaction bug squared .

@Wellenreiter I want to give you more kudos +1000 :)

Wellenreiter

It’s currently on 0.9.3.1 only, as this is the latest release version.

looarn

Hey,

Just to say thanks a bunch @aciddude !

I got a node running on a debian.

I just need to add this dependency : apt-get install -y pkg-config

Actually syncing. ^^

AcidD

Hi All,

Ubuntu has recently changed a few things.

building Feathercoin 0.9.6 - you might come across this error:

libbitcoinqt.a(libbitcoinqt_a-snapwidget.o): In function SnapWidget::on_snapButton_clicked()': [ 743s] /usr/src/packages/BUILD/src/qt/snapwidget.cpp:72: undefined reference tozxing::String::getTextabi:cxx11 const’

To fix, you need to rebuild zxing like this:

mkdir zxing && cd zxing 
git clone https://github.com/glassechidna/zxing-cpp.git
cd zxing-cpp/
mkdir build
cd build/
export CXXFLAGS="-fPIC"
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fPIC -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=11 -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED=ON ..
make && sudo make install

Wellenreiter

That’s the solution to one of the little problems I have while creating the Linux installation packages :)

Many thanks
@aciddude