build_sv_docker

Helper container to build bitcoin SV

Dependencies

This project requires Docker and git to be installed

Download SV into the current working directory

Please note for the current SV github does not build on ubuntu 22.04

git clone https://github.com/murphyj8/bitcoin-sv.git
cd bitcoin-sv
git checkout leveldb_submodule
git submodule update --init --recursive

Docker images

Please build and start the docker image as shown below:

./build.sh
./run.sh

This will start a container running Ubuntu with the required tools to build bitcoinsv

To build SV

Please execute the commands below.

cd bitcoin/bitcoin-sv
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=ON -DLEVELDB_BUILD_TESTS:BOOL=OFF -DLEVELDB_BUILD_BENCHMARKS:BOOL=OFF
make

Running a regtest bitcoin-sv node

A bitcoin.conf is supplied with a set of default settings to help but it's left as an exercise to the reader to run bitcoind with this configuration.