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    • AcidD
      AcidD Moderators last edited by AcidD

      Hi All,

      Me again, the below is what I did to get Feathercoin 0.9.3.1 to build under MacOS Sierra 10.12

      The following guide assumes you have a clean install of MacOS Sierra for your build environment

      If you dont have a Mac to hand, you can use the below tutorial to get MacOS Sierra running on Windows in VMware Player, its what I did :-)
      https://techsviewer.com/install-macos-sierra-vmware-windows/
      I also enabled Remote Login in System Preferences -> Sharing, to allow SSH login so I can use putty

      Because we are doing this on MacOS Sierra, we have to use QT 5.7.0 as previous versions of QT are not supported.
      QT 5.7.0 requires C++11 support and in order to build QT 5.7.0 with Homebrew, you need to have the full version of Xcode installed, not just the command-line tools. Grab Xcode free from the Apple Developer site and install it before continuing with the below.       I used Xcode 8.2

      Step 0: Homebrew

      Install homebrew with this command:

      ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

      Step 1: Install FeathercoinD & Feathercoin-QT dependencies

      Boost v1.55.0

      brew install homebrew/versions/boost155 --universal
brew link boost155 --force --overwrite

      Protobuf v2.6.0

      brew install homebrew/versions/protobuf260 --c++11 --universal

      brew install libevent --c++11 --universal
brew install autoconf automake libtool miniupnpc openssl pkg-config
brew install berkeley-db4
brew install libqrencode

      QT 5.7.0

      brew install qt5 --with-dbus
brew link qt5 --force --overwrite

      Notes:
      It takes a while for the Brew install for QT on this VM with 2 Processors and 8GB RAM, so just let it sit there, you can see in the activity monitor your CPU should be maxed out
      /usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.7.0: 8,303 files, 328M, built in 171 minutes 58 seconds

      zxing-cpp

      In a new Terminal

      brew install cmake

mkdir zxing && cd zxing 
git clone https://github.com/glassechidna/zxing-cpp.git
cd zxing-cpp/
ls
mkdir build
cd build/
export CXXFLAGS="-fPIC"


cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make && sudo make install

      Locate and edit the LuminanceSource.h file in /usr/local/include/zxing and change line 30 to “public:” instead of “private:” if you dont do this FTC will throw a different zxing error on compile…

      Step 2: Build FeathercoinD & Feathercoin-QT

      In a new Terminal window

      git clone https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin.git -b 0.9.3.1 FTC0931
cd FTC0931
./autogen.sh 
./configure --disable-upnp-default --disable-tests --without-miniupnpc LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/berkeley-db4/lib/ -L/usr/local/opt/qrencode/lib/" CPPFLAGS=" -I/usr/local/opt/berkeley-db4/include/ -I/usr/local/opt/qrencode/include/" --with-gui=qt5 --with-qrcode=yes 
make

      At this point the compiler will start chugging away and you can go make yourself coffee.

      Building and Troubleshooting issues

      Some of the below issues and fixes are not a reflection on the Feathercoin code but are more to do with the way MacOS does things and the fact you’re forced to use certain things because it’s the latest/newest OS from Apple.

      The reason why I’ve included them here is so that:
      A: We can get a final build :-)
      B: So the Feathercoin Developers get a heads up and will hopefully help them with future releases

      Ok lets start.

      Around half way during the compile, once it’s passed FeathercoinD and moved on to the QT part you’ll get this error:

      Build Error 1:

      error: "Qt requires C++11 support

      Fix
      Navigate to the QT source directory FTC0931/src/qt
      find the Makefile and open it with a TextEditor or if you’re a cli person you can use vi
      find the CPPFLAGS = it should look like this:

      Before
      CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/local/opt/berkeley-db4/include/ -I/usr/local/opt/qrencode/include/ -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -I/include -DMAC_OSX -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

      Add this bit -std=c++11 at the end so it looks like this:
      After
      CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/local/opt/berkeley-db4/include/ -I/usr/local/opt/qrencode/include/ -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -I/include -DMAC_OSX -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -std=c++11

      You’ll need to do the same for OBJCXXFLAGS =
      Before
      OBJCXXFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstack-protector -fstack-protector-all -fPIE -fPIC

      After
      OBJCXXFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstack-protector -fstack-protector-all -fPIE -fPIC -std=c++11

      Go back to your Feathercoin build terminal and continue with the build

      make

      Build Error 2:

      Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_iconv", referenced from:
      zxing::aztec::Decoder::getEncodedData(zxing::Ref<zxing::BitArray>) in libzxing.a(Decoder.cpp.o)
      zxing::qrcode::DecodedBitStreamParser::append(std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> >&, char const*, unsigned long, char const*) in libzxing.a(DecodedBitStreamParser.cpp.o)

      go back to your qt makefile in FTC0931/src/qt and add the below to LIBS = at the begining where you see -lzxing -lqrencode

      Add this
      -liconv

      Go back to your Feathercoin build terminal and continue with the build

      make

      It should end with this

        OBJCXX   feathercoin_qt-macdockiconhandler.o
  OBJCXX   feathercoin_qt-macnotificationhandler.o
  OBJCXXLD feathercoin-qt
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pie'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
acids-Mac:FTC0931 acid$

      Navigate to FTC0931/src/qt/ and the Feathercoin-QT Executable Binary should be there. Double click to run :-)

      Note: That you will only be able to run this app on the machine you built it on, there’s a little bit more work if you want to make it a portable DMG that you can install on multiple macs without having to install all the dependencies. I’ll probably cover this later on, in a kind of “Part 2”

      I hope this helps someone,

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      • AcidD
        AcidD Moderators last edited by AcidD

        Notes for developers:
        If you would like to use boost 1.62.0 (at time of writing, that’s the latest version)
        You need to build boost from source like this:

        Download boost from here:
        https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.62.0/

        Extract Boost and Build Boost 1.62.0

        tar xjf boost-1.62.0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_62_0

./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/boost162/1.62.0 --libdir=/usr/local/Cellar/boost162/1.62.0/lib


./b2 --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/boost162/1.62.0 --libdir=/usr/local/Cellar/boost162/1.62.0/lib -d2 -j4 --layout=tagged install threading=multi,single link=shared,static address-model=64 architecture=x86 pch=off cxxflags="-arch x86_64 -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++" linkflags=-stdlib=libc++

        If you look above i specifically used the /usr/local/Cellar directory and just named the boost install directory “boost162” that way you can do a “brew link boost162” if you need it to sym link correctly on MacOS.

        Once the above is done, build Feathercoin with this:

         ./configure --disable-upnp-default --disable-tests --without-miniupnpc LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/berkeley-db4/lib/ -L/usr/local/opt/qrencode/lib/" CPPFLAGS=" -I/usr/local/opt/berkeley-db4/include/ -I/usr/local/opt/qrencode/include/" CXXFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++" --with-gui=qt5 --with-qrcode=yes --with-boost=/usr/local/Cellar/boost162/1.62.0 --with-boost-libdir=/usr/local/Cellar/boost162/1.62.0/lib

        I hope this helps someone.

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        • lizhi
          lizhi last edited by

          Fix Build Error 3
          https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/commit/01b65443a91922fa91758a344c746c4f7594d353

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          • AcidD
            AcidD Moderators last edited by AcidD

            Make Deploy

            Once you’ve built Feathercoin-QT with “make” you have the option of running the command “make deploy”, this will run stuff from the contrib/macdeploy folder. Make deploy makes a DMG for distribution.

            If you did not symlink your boost libs correctly in MacOS you might get this error below

            Terminal Output

            acids-Mac:FTC-DMG acid$ make deploy
./contrib/macdeploy/macdeployqtplus Feathercoin-Qt.app -add-qt-tr da,de,es,hu,ru,uk,zh_CN,zh_TW -dmg -fancy ./contrib/macdeploy/fancy.plist -verbose 2
+ Removing old dist folder +
+ Copying source bundle +
+ Deploying frameworks +
Processing libboost_system.dylib ...
Error: No file at libboost_system.dylib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./contrib/macdeploy/macdeployqtplus", line 583, in <module>
    sys.exit(ret)
NameError: name 'ret' is not defined
make: *** [Feathercoin-Qt.dmg] Error 1

            How to Fix

            First check what the Feathercoin-Qt App is using
            We can use otool
            you can read more about otool here: http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/otool/

            cd src/qt/
otool -L Feathercoin-Qt

/*
acids-Mac:qt acid$ otool -L Feathercoin-Qt
Feathercoin-Qt:
        libboost_system.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        libboost_filesystem.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        libboost_program_options-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        libboost_thread-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        libboost_chrono-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5/QtNetwork (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions/5/QtPrintSupport (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation (compatibility version 300.0.0, current version 1349.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 48.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 1504.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtDBus.framework/Versions/5/QtDBus (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/protobuf260/lib/libprotobuf.9.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/berkeley-db4/lib/libdb_cxx-4.8.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qrencode/lib/libqrencode.3.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version 8.4.0)
        /usr/local/opt/miniupnpc/lib/libminiupnpc.16.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 307.4.0)
        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1238.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 1348.1.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 775.8.0)
        /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 228.0.0)
*/

            You can see above, my boost libs dont have the correct path.
            We need to use another tool called “install_name_tool” to reset the boost libs location

            The Syntax is

            install_name_tool -change before after executable

            I have my boost libs installed in /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/

            install_name_tool -change libboost_system.dylib /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_system-mt.dylib Feathercoin-Qt
install_name_tool -change libboost_filesystem.dylib /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt.dylib Feathercoin-Qt
install_name_tool -change libboost_program_options-mt.dylib /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.dylib Feathercoin-Qt
install_name_tool -change libboost_thread-mt.dylib /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_thread-mt.dylib Feathercoin-Qt
install_name_tool -change libboost_chrono-mt.dylib /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_chrono-mt.dylib Feathercoin-Qt

            Now we can verify with otool again

            otool -L Feathercoin-Qt


/*
acids-Mac:qt acid$ otool -L Feathercoin-Qt
Feathercoin-Qt:
        /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_system-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_thread-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/boost162/lib/libboost_chrono-mt.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5/QtNetwork (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions/5/QtPrintSupport (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation (compatibility version 300.0.0, current version 1349.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 48.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 1504.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtDBus.framework/Versions/5/QtDBus (compatibility version 5.7.0, current version 5.7.0)
        /usr/local/opt/protobuf260/lib/libprotobuf.9.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/berkeley-db4/lib/libdb_cxx-4.8.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/qrencode/lib/libqrencode.3.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version 8.4.0)
        /usr/local/opt/miniupnpc/lib/libminiupnpc.16.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 307.4.0)
        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1238.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 1348.1.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 775.8.0)
        /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 228.0.0)

*/

            Continue with the make deploy

            cd ../..
make deploy

            when the make deploy is over you should have a Feathercoin-Qt.dmg created in the root of your project directory. When you run the DMG you should see the below.

            image

            I hope this helps someone.

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            • AcidD
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              This guide is still valid for the current 0.9.6.1 branch

              0.9.6.1 also builds with boost 1.64.0 and QT 5.8

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