Compile Monero 0.9 on Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04 x64

The example shows how to compile the current github version of Monero, as of 03 Jan 2015, on Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04.3 x64.

Dependencies (Ubuntu 15.10)

Before proceeding to the compilation, the following packages are required:

# update Ubuntu's repository
sudo apt-get update

#install git to easly get Monero from github
sudo apt-get install git

# install dependencies to be able to compile Monero
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libboost-all-dev miniupnpc libunbound-dev graphviz doxygen

Dependencies (Ubuntu 14.04)

Before proceeding to the compilation, the following packages are required:

# update Ubuntu's repository
sudo apt-get update

#install git to easly get Monero from github
sudo apt-get install git

# install dependencies to be able to compile Monero
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libboost1.55-all-dev miniupnpc libunbound-dev graphviz doxygen

Compilation

Having the dependencies, we can download the current github Monero version and compile it as follows:

# download the latest bitmonero source code from github
git clone https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero.git

# go into bitmonero folder
cd bitmonero/

# compile
make # or make -j number_of_threads, e.g., make -j 2

Installation

After successful compilation, the Monero binaries should be located in ./build/release/bin as shown below:

./bitmonero
├── build
│   └── release
│       ├── bin
│       │   ├── bitmonerod
│       │   ├── blockchain_converter
│       │   ├── blockchain_dump
│       │   ├── blockchain_export
│       │   ├── blockchain_import
│       │   ├── cn_deserialize
│       │   ├── connectivity_tool
│       │   ├── simpleminer
│       │   └── simplewallet

# other subfolders than bin not shown here.

I usually move the binaries into /opt/bitmonero/ folder. This can be done as follows:

# optional
sudo mkdir /opt/bitmonero
sudo mv -v ./build/release/bin/* /opt/bitmonero/

This should result in:

/opt/bitmonero
├── bitmonerod
├── blockchain_converter
├── blockchain_dump
├── blockchain_export
├── blockchain_import
├── cn_deserialize
├── connectivity_tool
├── simpleminer
└── simplewallet

Now we can start the Monero daemon, i.e. bitmonerod, and let it download the blockchain and synchronize itself with the Monero network. After that, you can run your the simplewallet.

# launch the Monero daemon and let it synchronize with the Monero network
/opt/bitmonero/bitmonerod

# launch the Monero wallet
/opt/bitmonero/simplewallet

Useful aliases (with rlwrap)

bitmonerod and simplewallet do not have tab-compliton nor history. This problem can be overcome using rlwrap.

# install rlwrap
sudo apt-get install rlwrap

# download bitmonerod and simplewallet commands files
wget -O ~/.bitmonero/monerocommands_bitmonerod.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moneroexamples/compile-monero-ubuntu/master/monerocommands_bitmonerod.txt
wget -O ~/.bitmonero/monerocommands_simplewallet.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moneroexamples/compile-monero-ubuntu/master/monerocommands_simplewallet.txt

# add aliases to .bashrc
echo "alias moneronode='rlwrap -f ~/.bitmonero/monerocommands_simplewallet.txt /opt/bitmonero/bitmonerod'" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "alias monerowallet='rlwrap -f ~/.bitmonero/monerocommands_bitmonerod.txt /opt/bitmonero/simplewallet'" >> ~/.bashrc

# reload .bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

With this, we can just start the daemon and wallet simply using moneronode and monerowallet commands. rlwrap will provide tab-complition and history for the monero programs.

Monero C++11 development (optional)

If you want to develop your own C++11 programs on top of Monero 0.9, Monero's static libraries and headers will be needed. Below is shown how they can be setup for use to write your own C++11 programs based on Monero. An example of such a program is access-blockchain-in-cpp.

Monero static libraries

When the compilation finishes, a number of static Monero libraries should be generated. We will need them to link against.

Since they are spread out over different subfolders of the ./build/ folder, it is easier to just copy them into one folder. I assume that /opt/bitmonero-dev/libs is the folder where they are going to be copied to.

# create the folder
sudo mkdir -p /opt/bitmonero-dev/libs

# find the static libraries files (i.e., those with extension of *.a)
# and copy them to /opt/bitmonero-dev/libs
# assuming you are still in bitmonero/ folder which you downloaded from
# github
sudo find ./build/ -name '*.a' -exec cp -v {} /opt/bitmonero-dev/libs  \;

This should results in the following file structure:

/opt/bitmonero-dev/
└── libs
   ├── libblockchain_db.a
   ├── libblocks.a
   ├── libcommon.a
   ├── libcrypto.a
   ├── libcryptonote_core.a
   ├── libcryptonote_protocol.a
   ├── libdaemonizer.a
   ├── libgtest.a
   ├── libgtest_main.a
   ├── liblmdb.a
   ├── libminiupnpc.a
   ├── libmnemonics.a
   ├── libotshell_utils.a
   ├── libp2p.a
   ├── librpc.a
   └── libwallet.a

Monero headers

Now we need to get Monero headers, as this is our interface to the Monero libraries. Folder /opt/bitmonero-dev/headers is assumed to hold the headers.

# create the folder
sudo mkdir -p /opt/bitmonero-dev/headers

# find the header files (i.e., those with extension of *.h)
# and copy them to /opt/bitmonero-dev/headers.
# but this time the structure of directories is important
# so rsync is used to find and copy the headers files
sudo rsync -zarv --include="*/" --include="*.h" --exclude="*" --prune-empty-dirs ./ /opt/bitmonero-dev/headers

This should results in the following file structure:

# only src/ folder with up to 3 level nesting is shown

/opt/bitmonero-dev/headers/src/
├── blockchain_db
│   ├── berkeleydb
│   │   └── db_bdb.h
│   ├── blockchain_db.h
│   ├── db_types.h
│   └── lmdb
│       └── db_lmdb.h
├── blockchain_utilities
│   ├── blockchain_utilities.h
│   ├── blocksdat_file.h
│   ├── bootstrap_file.h
│   ├── bootstrap_serialization.h
│   └── fake_core.h
├── blocks
│   └── blocks.h
├── common
│   ├── base58.h
│   ├── boost_serialization_helper.h
│   ├── command_line.h
│   ├── dns_utils.h
│   ├── http_connection.h
│   ├── i18n.h
│   ├── int-util.h
│   ├── pod-class.h
│   ├── rpc_client.h
│   ├── scoped_message_writer.h
│   ├── unordered_containers_boost_serialization.h
│   ├── util.h
│   └── varint.h
├── crypto
│   ├── blake256.h
│   ├── chacha8.h
│   ├── crypto.h
│   ├── crypto_ops_builder
│   │   ├── api.h
│   │   ├── crypto_int32.h
│   │   ├── crypto-ops.h
│   │   ├── crypto_sign.h
│   │   ├── crypto_uint32.h
│   │   ├── crypto_verify_32.h
│   │   ├── include
│   │   ├── ref10
│   │   ├── ref10CommentedCombined
│   │   └── sha512.h
│   ├── crypto-ops.h
│   ├── generic-ops.h
│   ├── groestl.h
│   ├── groestl_tables.h
│   ├── hash.h
│   ├── hash-ops.h
│   ├── initializer.h
│   ├── jh.h
│   ├── keccak.h
│   ├── oaes_config.h
│   ├── oaes_lib.h
│   ├── random.h
│   ├── skein.h
│   └── skein_port.h
├── cryptonote_config.h
├── cryptonote_core
│   ├── account_boost_serialization.h
│   ├── account.h
│   ├── blockchain.h
│   ├── blockchain_storage_boost_serialization.h
│   ├── blockchain_storage.h
│   ├── checkpoints_create.h
│   ├── checkpoints.h
│   ├── connection_context.h
│   ├── cryptonote_basic.h
│   ├── cryptonote_basic_impl.h
│   ├── cryptonote_boost_serialization.h
│   ├── cryptonote_core.h
│   ├── cryptonote_format_utils.h
│   ├── cryptonote_stat_info.h
│   ├── difficulty.h
│   ├── hardfork.h
│   ├── miner.h
│   ├── tx_extra.h
│   ├── tx_pool.h
│   └── verification_context.h
├── cryptonote_protocol
│   ├── blobdatatype.h
│   ├── cryptonote_protocol_defs.h
│   ├── cryptonote_protocol_handler_common.h
│   └── cryptonote_protocol_handler.h
├── daemon
│   ├── command_line_args.h
│   ├── command_parser_executor.h
│   ├── command_server.h
│   ├── core.h
│   ├── daemon.h
│   ├── executor.h
│   ├── p2p.h
│   ├── protocol.h
│   ├── rpc_command_executor.h
│   └── rpc.h
├── daemonizer
│   ├── daemonizer.h
│   ├── posix_fork.h
│   ├── windows_service.h
│   └── windows_service_runner.h
├── miner
│   ├── simpleminer.h
│   ├── simpleminer_protocol_defs.h
│   └── target_helper.h
├── mnemonics
│   ├── electrum-words.h
│   ├── english.h
│   ├── german.h
│   ├── italian.h
│   ├── japanese.h
│   ├── language_base.h
│   ├── old_english.h
│   ├── portuguese.h
│   ├── russian.h
│   ├── singleton.h
│   └── spanish.h
├── p2p
│   ├── net_node_common.h
│   ├── net_node.h
│   ├── net_peerlist_boost_serialization.h
│   ├── net_peerlist.h
│   ├── p2p_protocol_defs.h
│   └── stdafx.h
├── platform
│   ├── mingw
│   │   └── alloca.h
│   └── msc
│       ├── alloca.h
│       ├── inline_c.h
│       ├── stdbool.h
│       └── sys
├── rpc
│   ├── core_rpc_server_commands_defs.h
│   ├── core_rpc_server_error_codes.h
│   └── core_rpc_server.h
├── serialization
│   ├── binary_archive.h
│   ├── binary_utils.h
│   ├── crypto.h
│   ├── debug_archive.h
│   ├── json_archive.h
│   ├── json_utils.h
│   ├── serialization.h
│   ├── string.h
│   ├── variant.h
│   └── vector.h
├── simplewallet
│   ├── password_container.h
│   └── simplewallet.h
└── wallet
    ├── wallet2.h
    ├── wallet_errors.h
    ├── wallet_rpc_server_commands_defs.h
    ├── wallet_rpc_server_error_codes.h
    └── wallet_rpc_server.h

Full /opt/bitmonero-dev/ tree is here.

Other examples

Other examples can be found on github. Please know that some of the examples/repositotires are not finished and may not work as intended.

How can you help?

Constructive criticism, code and website edits are always good. They can be made through github.

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