Updated for FreeBSD 12.3
This guide describes how to build navcoind, command-line utilities, and GUI on FreeBSD.
Run the following as root to install the base dependencies for building.
pkg install autoconf automake boost-libs git gmake libevent libtool pkgconf
See dependencies.md for a complete overview.
Now that git
and all the required dependencies are installed, let's clone the Bitcoin Core repository to a directory. All build scripts and commands will run from this directory.
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
It is not necessary to build wallet functionality to run either navcoind
or navcoin-qt
.
sqlite3
is required to support descriptor wallets.
Skip if you don't intend to use descriptor wallets.
pkg install sqlite3
BerkeleyDB is only required if legacy wallet support is required.
It is required to use Berkeley DB 4.8. You cannot use the BerkeleyDB library from ports. However, you can build DB 4.8 yourself using depends.
gmake -C depends NO_BOOST=1 NO_LIBEVENT=1 NO_SQLITE=1 NO_NATPMP=1 NO_UPNP=1 NO_ZMQ=1 NO_USDT=1
When the build is complete, the Berkeley DB installation location will be displayed:
to: /path/to/bitcoin/depends/x86_64-unknown-freebsd[release-number]
Finally, set BDB_PREFIX
to this path according to your shell:
csh: setenv BDB_PREFIX [path displayed above]
sh/bash: export BDB_PREFIX=[path displayed above]
Bitcoin Core includes a GUI built with the cross-platform Qt Framework. To compile the GUI, we need to install qt5
. Skip if you don't intend to use the GUI.
pkg install qt5
The GUI can encode addresses in a QR Code. To build in QR support for the GUI, install libqrencode
. Skip if not using the GUI or don't want QR code functionality.
pkg install libqrencode
Bitcoin Core can provide notifications via ZeroMQ. If the package is installed, support will be compiled in.
pkg install libzmq4
There is an included test suite that is useful for testing code changes when developing. To run the test suite (recommended), you will need to have Python 3 installed:
pkg install python3 databases/py-sqlite3
There are many ways to configure Bitcoin Core, here are a few common examples:
This explicitly enables the GUI and disables legacy wallet support, assuming sqlite
and qt
are installed.
./autogen.sh
./configure --without-bdb --with-gui=yes MAKE=gmake
This enables support for both wallet types and disables the GUI, assuming
sqlite3
and db4
are both installed.
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-gui=no \
BDB_LIBS="-L${BDB_PREFIX}/lib -ldb_cxx-4.8" \
BDB_CFLAGS="-I${BDB_PREFIX}/include" \
MAKE=gmake
./autogen.sh
./configure --without-wallet --with-gui=no MAKE=gmake
Important: Use gmake
(the non-GNU make
will exit with an error).
gmake # use "-j N" for N parallel jobs
gmake check # Run tests if Python 3 is available