Building on Ubuntu¶
Table of Contents
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.