lbrycrd/doc/build-freebsd.md

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

In order to run the test suite (recommended), you will need to have Python 3 installed:

pkg install python3

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

followed by either:

gmake

to build without testing, or

gmake check

to also run the test suite (recommended, if Python 3 is installed).

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).