lbrycrd/doc
Wladimir J. van der Laan 62c15471f1
Merge #14849: depends: qt 5.9.7
a46c8476e9 depends: disable unused qt features (fanquake)
73b46eeb7e depends: qt 5.9.7 (fanquake)
095e765975 depends: expat 2.2.6 (fanquake)

Pull request description:

  This PR upgrades `expat` and `qt` in depends. The intention is to upgrade Qt in master to the latest point release of the current Qt LTS. This change can then be back-ported to the 0.17 branch (wether it makes it into 0.17.1 or not).

  Then, sometime before the 0.18.0 release, we could move to using Qt 5.12+ in depends (which is also LTS). That discussion, as well as minimum supported Qt versions is in #13478.

  ### Qt 5.9.7
  [Release announcement](https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/10/23/qt-5-9-7-released/)
  [Changelog](https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70888?filter=20149)

  ### Expat 2.2.6
  * Avoid doing arithmetic with NULL pointers in XML_GetBuffer
  * Fix 2.2.5 regression with suspend-resume while parsing a document like <root/>

  Full changelog [here](https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_6/expat/Changes)

  a46c8476e9 disables a bunch of qt features we aren't currently using. This speeds up the qt depends build slightly (also decreases the size of the built `qt-5.9.7` tar by about 2%). The disabling is somewhat unintuitive, hence `[wip]` until after a travis run and gitian build.

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man configure: Make it possible to build only one of bitcoin-cli or bitcoin-tx 2018-09-13 11:48:23 +00:00
release-notes doc: Add historical release notes for 0.17.0.1 2018-11-06 09:23:50 +01:00
.gitignore Ignore Doxyfile generated from Doxyfile.in template. 2017-04-07 16:28:12 +02:00
assets-attribution.md [doc] Merge doc/assets-attribution.md into contrib/debian/copyright 2015-09-18 18:14:42 +02:00
benchmarking.md trivial: Fixed typos and cleaned up language 2018-08-02 21:27:16 +08:00
bips.md trivial: Fixed typos and cleaned up language 2018-08-02 21:27:16 +08:00
bitcoin-conf.md Add doc/bitcoin-conf.md 2018-10-19 01:13:57 +03:00
bitcoin_logo_doxygen.png Lossless image optimization 2013-12-02 10:10:22 +01:00
build-freebsd.md FreeBSD: Document Python 3 requirement for 'gmake check' 2018-10-31 02:52:50 -07:00
build-netbsd.md [doc] Create build-netbsd.md 2018-01-30 07:47:27 +08:00
build-openbsd.md Merge #14515: doc: Update OpenBSD build guide for 6.4 2018-11-05 13:26:37 +01:00
build-osx.md [doc] conf: Remove deprecated options from docs, Other cleanup 2018-11-07 13:30:03 -05:00
build-unix.md Various textual improvements in build docs 2018-10-28 06:01:01 +01:00
build-windows.md Various textual improvements in build docs 2018-10-28 06:01:01 +01:00
dependencies.md depends: qt 5.9.7 2018-12-12 20:59:30 +08:00
descriptors.md A few minor formatting fixes and clarifications to descriptors.md 2018-11-22 00:21:29 -05:00
developer-notes.md Merge #14882: [doc] developer-notes.md: point out that UniValue deviates from upstream 2018-12-06 11:33:39 -05:00
dnsseed-policy.md Correct spelling mistakes in doc folder 2015-10-18 06:25:43 +10:00
Doxyfile.in doc: Make build system insert version in Doxyfile 2017-04-05 09:40:56 +02:00
files.md Add nice table to files.md 2018-12-11 22:24:09 +01:00
fuzzing.md [test] Speed up fuzzing by ~200x when using afl-fuzz 2017-05-19 07:28:46 +02:00
gitian-building.md doc: move gitian building to external repo 2017-09-25 15:45:38 +02:00
init.md Fix typos 2018-10-04 21:58:24 +03:00
JSON-RPC-interface.md doc: Add external interface consistency guarantees 2018-10-30 16:40:36 -04:00
psbt.md doc: Fix PSBT howto and example parameters 2018-12-05 17:19:25 -05:00
README.md doc: Add external interface consistency guarantees 2018-10-30 16:40:36 -04:00
README_osx.md Rename “OS X” to the newer “macOS” convention 2018-06-04 13:04:04 +02:00
README_windows.txt doc: Remove version numbers from READMEs 2017-04-05 09:40:48 +02:00
reduce-traffic.md trivial: Fixed typos and cleaned up language 2018-08-02 21:27:16 +08:00
release-notes-14060.md doc: add detached release notes for #14060 2018-11-10 10:25:27 -05:00
release-notes-14477.md Add release notes 2018-11-14 14:21:42 -08:00
release-notes-pr13381.md rpc: creates possibility to preserve labels on importprivkey 2018-10-05 13:33:21 +01:00
release-notes.md Release notes: integrate detached release notes 2018-11-11 07:03:51 -05:00
release-process.md http -> https 2018-11-24 20:09:56 +02:00
REST-interface.md doc: Add external interface consistency guarantees 2018-10-30 16:40:36 -04:00
shared-libraries.md Add NULLDUMMY verify flag in bitcoinconsensus.h 2016-09-30 23:09:19 +08:00
tor.md Less confusing documentation for torpassword 2018-11-26 08:45:32 +08:00
translation_process.md Docs: Improve "of" grammar 2018-08-03 02:49:48 +08:00
translation_strings_policy.md Docs: Modify policy to not translate command-line help 2018-07-04 09:18:29 +08:00
travis-ci.md [doc] Rework docs 2016-10-04 13:27:38 +02:00
zmq.md ZMQ: add options to configure outbound message high water mark, aka SNDHWM 2018-10-19 07:36:13 -04:00

Bitcoin Core

Setup

Bitcoin Core is the original Bitcoin client and it builds the backbone of the network. It downloads and, by default, stores the entire history of Bitcoin transactions, which requires a few hundred gigabytes of disk space. Depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or more.

To download Bitcoin Core, visit bitcoincore.org.

Running

The following are some helpful notes on how to run Bitcoin Core on your native platform.

Unix

Unpack the files into a directory and run:

  • bin/bitcoin-qt (GUI) or
  • bin/bitcoind (headless)

Windows

Unpack the files into a directory, and then run bitcoin-qt.exe.

macOS

Drag Bitcoin Core to your applications folder, and then run Bitcoin Core.

Need Help?

Building

The following are developer notes on how to build Bitcoin Core on your native platform. They are not complete guides, but include notes on the necessary libraries, compile flags, etc.

Development

The Bitcoin repo's root README contains relevant information on the development process and automated testing.

Resources

Miscellaneous

License

Distributed under the MIT software license. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com), and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard.