Building on Ubuntu¶

Table of Contents

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit)
- Supported Ubuntu Versions
- Known issue:
  - Error {"message":"Timer Expired"} in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit)¶

Install Dependencies

We recommend building on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit), and the build dependencies may be installed with:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install autoconf cmake make automake libtool git libboost-all-dev libssl-dev g++ libcurl4-openssl-dev

Build BitShares Core:

git clone https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core.git
cd bitshares-core
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  .
make

Build Script

git clone https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core.git
cd bitshares-core
git checkout master # may substitute "master" with current release tag
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo .
make

Upgrade Script (prepend to the Build Script above if you built a prior release)

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core.git
git checkout master
git remote set-head origin --auto
git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive # this command may fail
git submodule sync --recursive
git submodule update --init --recursive

Supported Ubuntu Versions ¶

We recommend building on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit), and the build dependencies may be installed with:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64-bit)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit)

Note

BitShares requires a 64-bit operating system to build, and will not build on a 32-bit OS.

Known issue:¶

Error `{"message":"Timer Expired"}` in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ¶

If error {"message":"Timer Expired"} dropped then it could be issue with websocketpp in linux kernel > 4.4.

Details here

Steps to fix:

cd ~/bitshares-core/libraries/fc/vendor/websocketpp
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/DECENTfoundation/websocketpp.git
git fetch
git checkout

And then build BitShares Core.