How do I build Bitcoin in Fedora 18?

Question

There are instructions for building on Ubuntu/Debian, but I want to build it in Fedora.

Answer 1

You will have to rebuild OpenSSL, since the build shipped by Fedora/Red Hat does not include support for elliptic curve cryptography, on which Bitcoin relies. So you have to build your own.

Once that's done, you can get on with building Bitcoin normally, provided you point it at your private build of OpenSSL with -rpath.

Or, you can just skip all the work and use my existing Yum repository. This also gives you standards-compliant paths, as well as an SELinux-enabled bitcoind. Read the RPM spec files if you're really interested in the build process.

Answer 2

You'll need to install these libraries:

• libssl - provided by openssl in Fedora
• libboost - called boost in Fedora
• libdb4.8 - called db4.8 in Fedora
• miniupnpc

I'm not able to test this at the moment, but try something like this:

yum install openssl boost db4.8 miniupnpc

Once those are installed, and their src or dev packages may be necessary, you can do the actual build itself:

cd src/
make -f makefile.unix

Also requires openssl-devel