Compiling from source

Using make.sh (Debian/Ubuntu only)

By running ./make.sh build will download install required dependencies and run the complete compilation process. Run make install at the end of the process to make the compiled binaries available globally.

Compiling manually

1. Install gcc and boost and other dependecies from your distribution's package manager.

   Arch Linux

   sudo pacman -S gcc boost libevent python
   

   Debian/Ubuntu

   sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config bsdmainutils python3 curl ibssl-dev libevent-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev
   

2. Clone the latest version of ain from GitHub.

   git clone https://github.com/DeFiCh/ain.git
   cd ain
   

3. Install Berekely DB.

   ./contrib/install_db4.sh `pwd`
   

   Once installation is complete, take note of the commands provided at the end of the build log.

   db4 build complete.
   
   When compiling defid, run `./configure` in the following way:
   
   export BDB_PREFIX='/home/DeFiCha/ain/contrib/db4'
   ./configure BDB_LIBS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib -ldb_cxx-4.8" BDB_CFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include" ...
   

4. Now, run the export command from the DB compilation, then run autogen.sh and finally run the configure command from above.

   export BDB_PREFIX='/home/DeFiCha/ain/contrib/db4'
   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure BDB_LIBS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib -ldb_cxx-4.8" BDB_CFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include"
   

5. We can now compile the node. Run make in the ain root directory.

   make #
   make -j "$(($(nproc)))" # for multicore CPUs
   

defid and other DeFiChain executables will now be in the src/ directory. You can run make install to access the compiled binaries globally.