Need to compile Master Branch of NavCoin-Core?

Need to compile NavCoin-Core but don’t know exactly how?

All you need are the following:

• A linux box
• A tutorial to teach you ( This is that tutorial, LMFAO )

NOTE: For the sake of simplicity, my example will be using an Ubuntu 18.04 Linux Box

Step 1

Install things we need, mainly Git and build-essential.

sudo apt install git build-essential

We need Git to clone the source and build-essential alias package on Ubuntu to install our build toolchain.

Step 2

Clone the code from NavCoin-Core github repository.

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/navcoin/navcoin-core.git

# Move your working directory to the cloned dir
cd navcoin-core

# Checkout the branch/tag/commit you wanna build
git checkout master

OR you can update the code if you already have it cloned.

# Move your working directory to an existing clone
cd navcoin-core

# Checkout the branch/tag/commit you wanna build
git checkout master

# Just pull the code changes
git pull

Step 3

Compile required dependencies.

cd ./depends
make

Step 4

Create and run the ./configure script.

# Assuming your working directory is still in `./depends` from last commands
cd ..

# Create the `./configure` script
./autogen.sh

# Run the `./configure` script and use the dependencies that we compiled in Step 3
./configure --prefix=`pwd`/depends/`uname -m`-pc-linux-gnu

Step 5

Compile NavCoin-Core itself.

make

Conclusion

Once you have followed this tutorial, you should have a binary in ./src/qt/navcoin-qt that is the NavCoin-Core QT wallet/client.

You should also have a binary in ./src/navcoind which is the NavCoin-Core daemon wallet/client.

Things to keep in mind

• You should use ./depends DIR dependencies to have closest experience to the releases from the offical tagged versions
• You should use ./depends DIR dependencies if you are not sure what system packages you need
• You can use system dependencies if you want to have less compiling, you can skip Step 3 if you have required dependencies install system wide
• You can run make commands with -j<number of cpu threads> ( if you have an eight thread cpu, i7-4790k, you can run make -j8 to speed up the compile time )