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Dash Core staging tree 0.11
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http://www.dashcurrency.com
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Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Bitcoin Core Developers
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Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Dash Core Developers
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What is Dash?
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Dash is an experimental new digital currency that enables anonymous, instant
payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Dash uses peer-to-peer technology
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to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money
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are carried out collectively by the network. Dash Core is the name of open
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source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
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the Dash Core software, see http://www.dashcurrency.com/downloads.
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License
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Dash Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See [COPYING](COPYING) for more
information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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Building process
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**compiling Dash from git**
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Use the autogen script to prepare the build environment.
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./autogen.sh
./configure
make
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**precompiled binaries**
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Precompiled binaries are available at github, see
https://github.com/darkcoinproject/darkcoin-binaries
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Always verify the signatures and checksums.
Development tips and tricks
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**compiling for debugging**
Run configure with the --enable-debug option, then make. Or run configure with
CXXFLAGS="-g -ggdb -O0" or whatever debug flags you need.
**debug.log**
If the code is behaving strangely, take a look in the debug.log file in the data directory;
error and debugging message are written there.
The -debug=... command-line option controls debugging; running with just -debug will turn
on all categories (and give you a very large debug.log file).
The Qt code routes qDebug() output to debug.log under category "qt": run with -debug=qt
to see it.
**testnet and regtest modes**
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Run with the -testnet option to run with "play darkcoins" on the test network, if you
are testing multi-machine code that needs to operate across the internet.
If you are testing something that can run on one machine, run with the -regtest option.
In regression test mode blocks can be created on-demand; see qa/rpc-tests/ for tests
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that run in -regtest mode.
**DEBUG_LOCKORDER**
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Dash Core is a multithreaded application, and deadlocks or other multithreading bugs
can be very difficult to track down. Compiling with -DDEBUG_LOCKORDER (configure
CXXFLAGS="-DDEBUG_LOCKORDER -g") inserts run-time checks to keep track of what locks
are held, and adds warning to the debug.log file if inconsistencies are detected.