Building MultiChain

System requirements

These instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 only.

C++ compilers are memory-hungry. It is recommended to have at least 1 GB of memory available when compiling MultiChain. With 512MB of memory or less compilation will take much longer due to swap thrashing.

Linux Build Notes (currently Ubuntu only)

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

Compile MultiChain for Ubuntu (64-bit)

./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Notes

This will build multichaind, multichain-cli and multitchain-util in the src directory.

The release is built with GCC and then strip multichaind to strip the debug symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.

Windows Build Notes (cross compilation on Ubuntu)

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils
sudo apt-get install g++-mingw-w64-i686 mingw-w64-i686-dev g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 mingw-w64-x86-64-dev curl
sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev
sudo apt-get install git
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

Compile MultiChain for Windows (64-bit)

./autogen.sh
cd depends
make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 -j4
cd ..
./configure --prefix=`pwd`/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32 --enable-cxx --disable-shared --enable-static --with-pic
make

Notes

This will build multichaind.exe, multichain-cli.exe and multitchain-util.exe in the src directory.