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

This is how I compiled bitcoind from the github source on Fedora 18.

sudo yum install gcc-c++ make
sudo yum install boost-devel 
sudo yum install db4-devel
sudo yum install openssl-devel
sudo yum install rpm-build
sudo yum install lynx
sudo yum install python-devel
sudo yum install miniupnpc
sudo yum install miniupnpc-devel.i686
sudo yum install libdb-cxx.i686
sudo yum install libdb-cxx-devel.i686

now grab the latest tarball from: http://www.openssl.org/source/ save and untar it in a directory, let's say ~/installs/openssl_ecdsa

cd ~/installs/openssl_ecdsa
./config
make
sudo make install

now pull the latest bitcoin source from github

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git

if you want the latest stable release, checkout the version number here: http://bitcoin.org/en/download

git checkout 0.8.3 //latest stable at the moment
cd bitcoin/src
export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_PATH="/usr/local/ssl/include"
export OPENSSL_LIB_PATH="/usr/local/ssl/lib"
make -f makefile.unix

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Tested on Fedora 20, 64-bit:

$ sudo yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
$ sudo yum install -y gcc-c++ libtool swig pyqt4-devel python-psutil python-twisted wget protobuf-devel
$ wget -qO- 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz' | tar -xzv && cd db*/build_unix
$ ../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=/usr/local/
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd; wget -qO- https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1i.tar.gz | tar -xzv && cd o*
$ export CFLAGS="-fPIC"; ./config --prefix=/usr/local shared enable-ec enable-ecdh enable-ecdsa
$ make depend && make all
$ sudo make install
$ cd; git clone git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git; cd bitcoin
$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib64 -L/usr/local/lib/ -L/usr/local/lib64/" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/"
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ mkdir ~/.bitcoin; wget -O ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/averageradical/compile/gh-pages/example/bitcoin.conf
$ bitcoin-qt # or nohup bitcoind &
$ bitcoin-cli help