How to compile Riecoin Core 0.16.3 in Debian 9 (for Linux and Win64)

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As 2019-01-13.

• Reference repository: https://github.com/riecointeam/riecoin
• Latest release with reference binaries
• This how to will use Bdb 5.3 (for the wallet data), which is incompatible with the version used in the reference build, keep that in mind and do not forget to backup your private keys. You can alternatively find the Gitian documentation to build binaries matching with the reference ones;
• Report any problem here.

Output: src/qt/riecoin-qt or src/qt/riecoin-qt.exe

Tip: when using make, add "-j numberOfThreads" after make to use more cores if you wish.

In all cases, install the dependencies and needed tools as root:

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# apt install build-essential libboost-all-dev libssl1.0-dev libdb5.3-dev libdb5.3++-dev libevent-dev autotools-dev libtool automake pkg-config bsdmainutils python3 curl git qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools

Currently, it is important to use LibSsl1.0. There are also patches from IGJ, but we should just wait that this gets directly fixed in GitHub.

Compilation on Debian 9 (for Linux)

install these additional dependencies (that must not be installed for cross compiling) as root:

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# apt install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

Get the source:

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git clone https://github.com/riecointeam/riecoin.git Riecoin
cd Riecoin

Compile:

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./autogen.sh
./configure --disable-tests --with-incompatible-bdb --with-gui
make

Cross compilation on Debian 9 (for Windows)

Remove libprotobuf-dev and protobuf-compiler if you installed them before, else you will get a very annoying error much later:

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# apt remove libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

Install MinGw as root

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# apt install g++-mingw-w64-x86-64

And configure it to avoid "Mutex is not a member of Std" errors

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# update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ # Set the default mingw32 g++ compiler option to posix.

Get the source:

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git clone https://github.com/riecointeam/riecoin.git Riecoin
cd Riecoin

Mod to use Db5.3 instead of Db4.8. Else, you will have header problems. To do this, adapt the depends/packages/bdb.mk file to:

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package=bdb
$(package)_version=5.3.28
$(package)_download_path=http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db
$(package)_file_name=db-$($(package)_version).NC.tar.gz
$(package)_sha256_hash=76a25560d9e52a198d37a31440fd07632b5f1f8f9f2b6d5438f4bc3e7c9013ef
$(package)_build_subdir=build_unix

define $(package)_set_vars
$(package)_config_opts=--disable-shared --enable-cxx --disable-replication
$(package)_config_opts_mingw32=--enable-mingw
$(package)_config_opts_linux=--with-pic
$(package)_cxxflags=-std=c++11
endef

define $(package)_preprocess_cmds
  sed -i.old 's/__atomic_compare_exchange/__atomic_compare_exchange_db/' src/dbinc/atomic.h && \
  sed -i.old 's/atomic_init/atomic_init_db/' src/dbinc/atomic.h src/mp/mp_region.c src/mp/mp_mvcc.c src/mp/mp_fget.c src/mutex/mut_method.c src/mutex/mut_tas.c && \
  sed -i.old 's/WinIoCtl.h/winioctl.h/' src/dbinc/win_db.h && \
  cp -f $(BASEDIR)/config.guess $(BASEDIR)/config.sub dist
endef

define $(package)_config_cmds
  ../dist/$($(package)_autoconf)
endef

define $(package)_build_cmds
  $(MAKE) libdb_cxx-5.3.a libdb-5.3.a
endef

define $(package)_stage_cmds
  $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$($(package)_staging_dir) install_lib install_include
endef

Or, you could try to install Db4.8 in your system, but if 5.3 is already in the repository, why mess with it? And we cannot do add-apt-repository in Debian (and should not have to)...

Compile dependencies:

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cd depends
make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32

Compile

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cd ..
./autogen.sh
CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure --prefix=/ --disable-tests -with-incompatible-bdb --with-gui
make

The compilation is so slow for WSL in my virtual machine that I have given up testing there. But maybe someone might test and give a similar Step by Step in the discussion topic.