Building on OS X

BitShares OS X Build Instructions

  1. Install XCode and its command line tools

Instructions here: https://guide.macports.org/#installing.xcode.

In OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and newer, you will be prompted to install developer tools when running a devloper command in the terminal. This step may not be needed.

  1. Install Homebrew

Instructions here: http://brew.sh/

  1. Initialize Homebrew:

    brew doctor
brew update

  2. Install dependencies:

    brew install cmake git openssl autoconf automake
brew link --force openssl
brew install bitshares/boost/boost@1.69
brew link --force --overwrite boost@1.69

  3. (Optional) To support importing Bitcoin wallet files:

    brew install berkeley-db

  4. (Optional) To use TCMalloc in LevelDB:

    brew install google-perftools

  5. Clone the Bitshares repository:

    git clone https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core.git
cd bitshares-core

  6. Build BitShares:

    git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake .
make

Note

As mentioned elsewhere, Bitshares depends on the third-party libraries “Boost” and “OpenSSL”. These libraries need to be in certain version ranges. At the moment, Boost needs to be between 1.58 and 1.74. OpenSSL needs to be in the 1.0.x - 1.1.x range.

Available Versions

Boost

  • Boost: between 1.58 and 1.74

To install the default version of boost:

brew install boost

To install an older version of boost from our own HomeBrew Tap:

brew install bitshares/boost/boost@1.69

OpenSSL

  • OpenSSL: 1.0.x - 1.1.x series

You may have an older version of OpenSSL than is required. If so, have brew get the latest:

brew upgrade openssl

Compiling with these new versions: We must now tell cmake where these libraries are. Instead of the “cmake .” mentioned above, we use:

cmake -DBOOST_ROOT=/usr/local/opt/boost@1.69 -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/opt/openssl .

and then proceed with the normal:

make