Some notes on how to build LiteGenX Core in Unix.
Always use absolute paths to configure and compile LiteGenX Core and the dependencies, For example, when specifying the path of the dependency:
../dist/configure --enable-cxx --disable-shared --with-pic --prefix=$BDB_PREFIX
Here BDB_PREFIX must be an absolute path - it is defined using $(pwd) which ensures the usage of the absolute path.
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install # optionalThis will build litegenx-qt as well, if the dependencies are met.
These dependencies are required:
| Library | Purpose | Description |
|---|---|---|
| libssl | Crypto | Random Number Generation, Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
| libboost | Utility | Library for threading, data structures, etc |
| libevent | Networking | OS independent asynchronous networking |
| libgmp | Bignum Arithmetic | Precision arithmetic |
Optional dependencies:
| Library | Purpose | Description |
|---|---|---|
| miniupnpc | UPnP Support | Firewall-jumping support |
| libdb4.8 | Berkeley DB | Wallet storage (only needed when wallet enabled) |
| qt | GUI | GUI toolkit (only needed when GUI enabled) |
| protobuf | Payments in GUI | Data interchange format used for payment protocol (only needed when GUI enabled) |
| univalue | Utility | JSON parsing and encoding (bundled version will be used unless --with-system-univalue passed to configure) |
| libzmq3 | ZMQ notification | Optional, allows generating ZMQ notifications (requires ZMQ version >= 4.0.0) |
For the versions used, see dependencies.md
C++ compilers are memory-hungry. It is recommended to have at least 1.5 GB of memory available when compiling LiteGenX Core. On systems with less, gcc can be tuned to conserve memory with additional CXXFLAGS:
./configure CXXFLAGS="--param ggc-min-expand=1 --param ggc-min-heapsize=32768"
Build requirements:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool bsdmainutils autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config automake python3
Now, you can either build from self-compiled depends or install the required dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libgmp-dev libevent-dev libboost-all-dev
Note: For Ubuntu versions starting with Bionic (18.04), or Debian versions starting with Stretch, use libssl1.0-dev
above instead of libssl-dev. LiteGenX Core does not support the use of OpenSSL 1.1, though compilation is still possible
by passing --with-incompatible-ssl to configure (NOT RECOMMENDED!).
BerkeleyDB is required for the wallet.
For Ubuntu only: db4.8 packages are available here. You can add the repository using the following command:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
Ubuntu and Debian have their own libdb-dev and libdb++-dev packages, but these will install
BerkeleyDB 5.1 or later. This will break binary wallet compatibility with the distributed executables, which
are based on BerkeleyDB 4.8. If you do not care about wallet compatibility,
pass --with-incompatible-bdb to configure.
Otherwise, you can build from self-compiled depends (see above).
To build LiteGenX Core without wallet, see Disable-wallet mode
Optional (see --with-miniupnpc and --enable-upnp-default):
sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev
ZMQ dependencies (provides ZMQ API):
sudo apt-get install libzmq3-dev
GUI dependencies:
If you want to build litegenx-qt, make sure that the required packages for Qt development
are installed. Qt 5 is necessary to build the GUI.
To build without GUI pass --without-gui.
To build with Qt 5 you need the following:
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5svg5-dev libqt5charts5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev
Once these are installed, they will be found by configure and a litegenx-qt executable will be built by default.
Build requirements:
sudo dnf install which gcc-c++ libtool make autoconf automake compat-openssl10-devel libevent-devel boost-devel libdb4-devel libdb4-cxx-devel gmp-devel python3
Optional:
sudo dnf install miniupnpc-devel zeromq-devel
To build with Qt 5 you need the following:
sudo dnf install qt5-qttools-devel qt5-qtbase-devel protobuf-devel qrencode-devel
The release is built with GCC and then "strip litegenxd" to strip the debug symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.
miniupnpc may be used for UPnP port mapping. It can be downloaded from here. UPnP support is compiled in and turned off by default. See the configure options for upnp behavior desired:
--without-miniupnpc No UPnP support miniupnp not required
--disable-upnp-default (the default) UPnP support turned off by default at runtime
--enable-upnp-default UPnP support turned on by default at runtime
To build:
tar -xzvf miniupnpc-1.6.tar.gz
cd miniupnpc-1.6
make
sudo su
make install
It is recommended to use Berkeley DB 4.8. If you have to build it yourself, you can use the installation script included in contrib/ like so:
./contrib/install_db4.sh `pwd`from the root of the repository.
Note: You only need Berkeley DB if the wallet is enabled (see Disable-wallet mode).
If you need to build Boost yourself:
sudo su
./bootstrap.sh
./bjam install
To help make your LiteGenX Core installation more secure by making certain attacks impossible to exploit even if a vulnerability is found, binaries are hardened by default. This can be disabled with:
Hardening Flags:
./configure --enable-hardening
./configure --disable-hardening
Hardening enables the following features:
-
Position Independent Executable: Build position independent code to take advantage of Address Space Layout Randomization offered by some kernels. Attackers who can cause execution of code at an arbitrary memory location are thwarted if they don't know where anything useful is located. The stack and heap are randomly located by default, but this allows the code section to be randomly located as well.
On an AMD64 processor where a library was not compiled with -fPIC, this will cause an error such as: "relocation R_X86_64_32 against `......' can not be used when making a shared object;"
To test that you have built PIE executable, install scanelf, part of paxutils, and use:
scanelf -e ./litegenxdThe output should contain:
TYPE ET_DYN
-
Non-executable Stack: If the stack is executable then trivial stack-based buffer overflow exploits are possible if vulnerable buffers are found. By default, LiteGenX Core should be built with a non-executable stack but if one of the libraries it uses asks for an executable stack or someone makes a mistake and uses a compiler extension which requires an executable stack, it will silently build an executable without the non-executable stack protection.
To verify that the stack is non-executable after compiling use:
scanelf -e ./litegenxdThe output should contain: STK/REL/PTL RW- R-- RW-
The STK RW- means that the stack is readable and writeable but not executable.
Note: This functionality is not yet completely implemented, and compilation using the below option will currently fail.
When the intention is to run only a P2P node without a wallet, LiteGenX Core may be compiled in disable-wallet mode with:
./configure --disable-wallet
In this case there is no dependency on Berkeley DB 4.8.
A list of additional configure flags can be displayed with:
./configure --help
These steps can be performed on, for example, an Ubuntu VM. The depends system will also work on other Linux distributions, however the commands for installing the toolchain will be different.
Make sure you install the build requirements mentioned above. Then, install the toolchain and curl:
sudo apt-get install g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf curl
To build executables for ARM:
cd depends
make HOST=arm-linux-gnueabihf NO_QT=1
cd ..
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$PWD/depends/arm-linux-gnueabihf --enable-glibc-back-compat --enable-reduce-exports LDFLAGS=-static-libstdc++
make
For further documentation on the depends system see README.md in the depends directory.