Installation of libbitcoin packages (version 3)

Installation of libbitcoin on macOS. Make sure that homebrew is installed and updated. Also make sure you install the packages in order shown below. As of this writing (May 1st, 2024), the master branch of libbitcoin is not ready for use yet.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git
$ brew --version
$ brew list

Installing libbitcoin-system

Seems like boost version 1.84 is incompatible with libbitcoin version 3 so --build-boost option was included. (boost version 1.73 will be installed along with libbitcoin-system on the installation prefix path) Also, the prefix is set to a certain directory but you can change whatever you want.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git
$ cd /Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin/version3/install.sh
$ chmod +x install.sh
$ ./install.sh --prefix=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix --build-boost --disable-shared

Installing libbitcoin-protocol

$ cd /Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/build-libbitcoin-protocol
$ git clone https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-protocol.git
$ cd libbitcoin-protocol
$ git branch --all
$ git checkout remotes/origin/version3
$ git checkout -b version3
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-boost=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/include --with-boost-libdir=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib LDFLAGS="-L/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/include" --prefix=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix
$ make
$ sudo make install

Installing libbitcoin-client

$ cd /Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/build-libbitcoin-client
$ git clone https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-client.git
$ cd libbitcoin-client
$ git branch --all
$ git checkout remotes/origin/version3
$ git checkout -b version3
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-boost=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/include --with-boost-libdir=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib LDFLAGS="-L/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/include" --prefix=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix
$ make
$ sudo make install

Installing libbitcoin-network

$ cd /Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/build-libbitcoin-network
$ git clone https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-network.git
$ cd libbitcoin-network
$ git branch --all
$ git checkout remotes/origin/version3
$ git checkout -b version3
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-boost=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/include --with-boost-libdir=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib LDFLAGS="-L/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/include" --prefix=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix
$ make
$ sudo make install

Installing libbitcoin-explorer

$ cd /Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/build-libbitcoin-explorer
$ git clone https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer.git
$ cd libbitcoin-explorer
$ git branch --all
$ git checkout remotes/origin/version3
$ git checkout -b version3
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-boost=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/include --with-boost-libdir=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib LDFLAGS="-L/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/include" --prefix=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix
$ make
$ sudo make install

After installation

After installation, you might need to add the installation path to your system's PATH environment variable to use the installed binaries. Make sure that every files are in the pkg-config directory (in this case, /Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib/pkgconfig). The directory should contain files like libsecp256k1.pc and libbitcoin-system.pc ...etc.

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/Users/legacy/C++_bitcoin/installation_prefix/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
$ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH