Build Feathercoin 0.9.6 on LinuxMint

AcidD

The following guide has been tested on:

Ubtunu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
LinuxMint 17.3

Feathercoin 0.9.6 - Build Instructions

First we start by updating our OS a little… I used a VMware images from OsBoxes.org

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade 

pwd

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

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 (I use this version since it’s the most popular)

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

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GIT was not installed by default soo…

sudo apt-get install git

Grab the FTC source

pwd should show /home/$username/FeathercoinBuild

git clone https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin.git FTC096 && cd FTC096

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: This will produce test_bitcoin files even though the code and tests are for Feathercoin, this was fixed in 0.9.6.1 which I think will be the next release.

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_bitcoin-qt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 acid acid 104M May 31 19:34 test_bitcoin
acid@osboxes ~/FeathercoinBuild/FTCbuild/bin $

I hope this helps someone. :-)

AmDD

Nice work, as always!

AcidD

Ha! Thanks,

The history behind this…There’s a user on the BitcoinTalk forums that was having a hard time building on their own and couldn’t get the PPA since ubuntu 14.04 isn’t supported, which is what LinuxMint 17.3 is based off…which is what they were using.

This is just a tidier version of the 0.9.3.1 guide I wrote, that guide needed updating anyways, but I didn’t want to edit an old thread… :-)

also #Proof - LinuxMint 17.3
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Wellenreiter

@aciddude said in Build Feathercoin 0.9.6 on LinuxMint & Ubuntu:

This is just a tidier version of the 0.9.3.1 guide I wrote, that guide needed updating anyways, but I didn’t want to edit an old thread…

I’d say we should update the older versions and add one post telling 'updated post XXX at <DATE> ; reason: <REASON>

That way we have just one thread with the howto and at the same time a change lock.

wrapper

Very nice guide, thanks.

AcidD

@Wellenreiter - ~~Ok No problem. We can keep this guide as is and edit it moving forward.~~

I take all of that back and bow to your wisdom :bow_tone2: … I was having a think and when I checked my old guide there was already a change log there…so I’ve updated that and re-pinned it.

I’ve also renamed this guide and unpinned.

Real guide here:
http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8556/guide-build-feathercoind-feathercoin-qt-v0-9-6-on-ubuntu/17