electrumsv/electrumsv-node

A convenient way to install and run a Bitcoin node in RegTest mode on 64-bit Windows, MacOS or Linux.

electrumsv-node's Issues

Add 32 bit windows wheel

Will now support 32bit and 64 bit on windows. 64 bit only for linux and mac

Windows: Build script should document or provide fallbacks for required environment variables

%VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT%

It should be possible to locally download and use vcpkg as a fall back. Or just to leave it on the user, and error with a good error message is likely even better than that.

CI: Cache the built node

Now that the node is built using a binaries directory that is decoupled from the source location, we should be able to directly point a Cache task at the BSV build sub-directory and packages should build almost immediately.

The big win is that this then makes rebuilding when there are only Python changes, almost immediate. And it makes making changes to tests, run promptly as well.

Need to make a macos wheel so SDK works on all platforms

bitcoin-sv/bitcoin-sv#18

CI: Provide SHA256 checksums for all build artifacts in the CI artifacts list

This should provide a way to know if an artifact that one has locally, is the one that was built on CI.

Linux: Cache the boost build from within manylinux to the host and back

The boost build takes around 40 minutes at this time. It should be possible to just send to/retrieve from the host /opt/boost_1_70 and let Azure take care of caching it. This would speed up the node building process by 20 minutes.

The linux builds are broken

Someone who didn't understand how things work moved the node building outside of the manylinux environment.. the whole reason we have cibuildwheel and manylinux is so that the node is built inside it so that the binaries are compatible with as many linuxes as possible. There is literally no point in having cibuildwheel............................... with this weird undermining of the whole point.

Need to make a "manylinux" wheel - pypi now requires this for pre-compiled linux wheels

see: pypi/warehouse#6545

Need to use these docker images because apparently "non-trivial" to make these - ugh...

Module: Should support starting on MacOS

Node: Update to v1.0.11

The BitcoinSV node component needs to be updated to v1.0.11. The headless SDK should be updated including it.

https://www.bitcoinsv.io/releases

Windows build: Should use vsbuild to detect the Visual Studio install location

QED

MacOS build: Should not use CI specific environment variables

QED

CI: Refactor to have pre-build jobs for Bitcoin SV then share result for packaging

• Alter the build scripts for all three platforms to detect if Bitcoin SV has already been built and to use the existing build.
• The Linux job should add cp38-manylinux-x86_64 to the cibuildwheel build list, and reuse the Bitcoin SV build.
• The Windows wheel building job should have a pre-job dependency that invokes the build script and preserves the result.
• The same for the MacOS wheel.

CI: Add tests that install the module and then start and stop on different platforms

• Ubuntu
• Windows
• MacOS

Add the ability to set the datadir when starting a bitcoin node instance to any arbitrary new path (or reuse a previous datadir)

This can then be used by the SDK to create multiple instances of bitcoind with separate datadirs.

The stop command would then also need to optionally take the datadir parameter to stop the correct instance.

Only 64 bit python3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 supported on windows at present

add ability to change logging path

Module: Should support starting on Linux

QED

Python: electrumsv_node.stop() should not return a requests response

>>> from electrumsv_node import electrumsv_node
>>> electrumsv_node.stop()
<Response [200]>
>>>

Linux build: Detect if Centos and error with clear message if not

• Rename script to linux-centos7-build.sh.
• In setup.py detect Linux variant and either invoke Centos 7 or error with clean message.