Electrum BCD - Lightweight Bitcoin Diamond client

Licence: MIT Licence
Author: BCD Developer
Language: Python
Homepage: https://github.com/eveybcd/electrum

Getting started

Electrum BCD is a pure python application. If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run Electrum BCD from its root directory, without installing it on your system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do:

./electrum

You can also install Electrum BCD on your system, by running this command:

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
python3 setup.py install

This will download and install the Python dependencies used by Electrum BCD, instead of using the 'packages' directory.

If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files before you can run Electrum BCD. Read the next section, "Development Version".

Development version

Check out the code from Github:

git clone git://github.com/eveybcd/electrum.git
cd electrum

Run install (this should install dependencies):

python3 setup.py install

Compile the icons file for Qt:

sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py

Compile the protobuf description file:

sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=lib/ --python_out=lib/ lib/paymentrequest.proto

Create translations (optional):

sudo apt-get install python-pycurl gettext
./contrib/make_locale

Creating Binaries

To create binaries, create the 'packages' directory:

./contrib/make_packages

This directory contains the python dependencies used by Electrum.

Mac OS X / macOS

./contrib/freeze_packages.sh
./contrib/make_osx

Windows

See contrib/build-wine/README file.

Android

See gui/kivy/Readme.txt file.