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FreeBSD build guide

(updated for FreeBSD 11.1)

This guide describes how to build bitcoind and command-line utilities on FreeBSD.

This guide does not contain instructions for building the GUI.

Preparation

You will need the following dependencies, which can be installed as root via pkg:

pkg install autoconf automake boost-libs git gmake libevent libtool openssl pkgconf

For the wallet (optional):

./contrib/install_db4.sh `pwd`
export BDB_PREFIX='$PWD/db4'

See dependencies.md for a complete overview.

Download the source code:

git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Building Bitcoin Core

Important: Use gmake (the non-GNU make will exit with an error).

./autogen.sh

./configure                  # to build with wallet OR
./configure --disable-wallet # to build without wallet

gmake

Note on debugging: The version of gdb installed by default is ancient and considered harmful. It is not suitable for debugging a multi-threaded C++ program, not even for getting backtraces. Please install the package gdb and use the versioned gdb command (e.g. gdb7111).