dogecoin/doc/build-osx.md

Mac OS X dogecoind build instructions

Authors

• Laszlo Hanyecz solar@heliacal.net
• Douglas Huff dhuff@jrbobdobbs.org
• Colin Dean cad@cad.cx
• Gavin Andresen gavinandresen@gmail.com
• Alan Westbrook

License

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.

Notes

See doc/readme-qt.rst for instructions on building Dogecoin-Qt, the graphical user interface.

Tested on OS X 10.6 through 10.9 on Intel processors only. PPC is not supported because it is big-endian.

All of the commands should be executed in a Terminal application. The built-in one is located in /Applications/Utilities.

Much of this may be outdated for Dogecoin.

Preparation

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 installation media, but if not, you can get the current version from https://developer.apple.com/xcode/. If you install Xcode 4.3 or later, you'll need to install its command line tools. This can be done in Xcode > Preferences > Downloads > Components and generally must be re-done or updated every time Xcode is updated.

There's an assumption that you already have git installed, as well. If not, it's the path of least resistance to install Github for Mac (OS X 10.7+) or Git for OS X. It is also available via Homebrew or MacPorts.

You will also need to install Homebrew or MacPorts in order to install library dependencies. It's largely a religious decision which to choose, but, as of December 2012, MacPorts is a little easier because you can just install the dependencies immediately - no other work required. If you're unsure, read the instructions through first in order to assess what you want to do. Homebrew is a little more popular among those newer to OS X.

The installation of the actual dependencies is covered in the Instructions sections below.

Instructions: MacPorts

Install dependencies

Installing the dependencies using MacPorts is very straightforward.

sudo port install boost db48@+no_java openssl miniupnpc

Building dogecoind

1. Clone the github tree to get the source code and go into the directory.

    git clone git@github.com:dogecoin-project/dogecoin.git dogecoin
    cd dogecoin
   

2. Build dogecoind:

   cd src
   make -f makefile.osx
   

3. It is a good idea to build and run the unit tests, too:

   make -f makefile.osx test
   

Instructions: HomeBrew

Install dependencies using Homebrew

    brew install boost miniupnpc openssl berkeley-db

Note: After you have installed the dependencies, you should check that the Brew installed version of OpenSSL is the one available for compilation. You can check this by typing

    openssl version

into Terminal. You should see OpenSSL 1.0.1g 7 Apr 2014.

If not, you can ensure that the Brew OpenSSL is correctly linked by running

    brew link openssl --force

Rerunning "openssl version" should now return the correct version.

For boost in dogecoin, there are some ‘fun’ things you have to do:

• download the latest boost from source

   http://www.boost.org/users/download/
  

• Build the boost libs with special flags because ... REASONS!

   ./bootstrap.sh
   ./b2 --toolset=clang cxxflags="-stdlib=libstdc++" linkflags="-stdlib=libstdc++"   variant=release link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static --build-dir=build   --build-type=minimal stage --with-program_options --with-system --with-filesystem   --with-chrono --with-thread
  

• link the statics to /usr/local/lib/

• make sure the headers for boost are in /usr/local/include/boost or linked from there.

Building dogecoind

1. Clone the github tree to get the source code and go into the directory.

    git clone git@github.com:dogecoin/dogecoin.git dogecoin
    cd dogecoin
   

2. Build dogecoind:

   cd src
   make -f makefile.osx
   

3. It is a good idea to build and run the unit tests, too:

   make -f makefile.osx test
   

Creating a release build

make -f makefile.osx RELEASE=1

Running

It's now available at ./dogecoind, provided that you are still in the src directory. We have to first create the RPC configuration file, though.

Run ./dogecoind to get the filename where it should be put, or just try these commands:

echo -e "rpcuser=dogecoinrpc\nrpcpassword=$(xxd -l 16 -p /dev/urandom)" > "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/dogecoin/dogecoin.conf"
chmod 600 "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/dogecoin/dogecoin.conf"

When next you run it, it will start downloading the blockchain, but it won't output anything while it's doing this. This process may take several hours.

Other commands:

./dogecoind --help  # for a list of command-line options.
./dogecoind -daemon # to start the dogecoin daemon.
./dogecoind help    # When the daemon is running, to get a list of RPC commands