BitChain is an open source platform for private blockchains, which offers a rich set of features including extensive configurability, rapid deployment, permissions management, native assets and data streams. Although it is designed to enable private blockchains, BitChain provides maximal compatibility with the bitcoin ecosystem, including the peer-to-peer protocol, transaction/block formats and Bitcoin Core APIs/runtime parameters.
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License: GNU General Public License version 3, see COPYING
Portions copyright (c) 2009-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
Portions copyright many others - see individual files
These compilation instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (xenial) and Ubuntu 18.04 x64 (bionic) only.
C++ compilers are memory-hungry, so it is recommended to have at least 1 GB of memory available when compiling BitChain. With less memory, compilation may take much longer due to swapfile thrashing.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev git python python-pip
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get install -y libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
sudo pip install pathlib2
BitChain requires Boost version no later than 1.65.
sudo apt-get install -y libboost1.65-all-dev
git clone https://github.com/BitChain/bitchain.git
cd bitchain
set BITCHAIN_HOME=$(pwd)
mkdir v8build
cd v8build
You can use pre-built headers and binaries of Google's V8 JavaScript engine by downloading and expanding linux-v8.tar.gz in the current directory. If, on the other hand, you prefer to build the V8 component yourself, please follow the instructions in V8.md.
cd $BITCHAIN_HOME
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
-
This will build
bitchaind
,bitchain-cli
andbitchain-util
in thesrc
directory. -
The release is built with GCC after which
strip bitchaind
strings the debug symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.
Please see the instructions in win.md to build BitChain for use with Windows.
Please see the instructions in mac.md to build BitChain for use with MacOS.