Building from source
When building Bitcoin Core from source, there are some platform-dependant instructions to follow.
To learn how to build for your platform, visit the Bitcoin Core bitcoin/doc directory, and read the file named "build-*.md", where "*" is the name of your platform. For windows this is "build-windows.md", for macOS this is "build-osx.md" and for most linux distributions this is "build-unix.md".
There is also a guide by Jon Atack on how to compile and test Bitcoin Core.
Finally, Blockchain Commons also offer a guide to building from source.
Cleaner builds
It can be helpful to use a separate build directory e.g. build/ when compiling from source. This can help avoid spurious Linker errors without requiring you to run make clean often.
From within your Bitcoin Core source directory you can run:
# Clean current source dir in case it was already configured
make distclean
# Make new build dir
mkdir build && cd build
# Run normal build sequence with amended path
../autogen.sh
../configure --your-normal-options-here
make -j `nproc`
make check| To run individual functional tests using the bitcoind binary built in an out-of-source build change directory back to the root source and specify the config.ini file from within the build directory: |