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Wladimir J. van der Laan 0ddc6505b6

Merge #15802 : doc: mention creating application support bitcoin folder on OSX

8dfbb5cf236cb70a2a1e65b076ccb7e2901833bd doc: mention creating application support bitcoin folder on OSX (Jack Mallers)

Pull request description:

  When setting up bitcoin core on my new MacBook via the [`macOS Build Instructions and Notes`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-osx.md), running `touch "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"` resulted in `No such file or directory` because my `/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/` folder had not been created yet.

  This PR adds `mkdir "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin"` to the documentation before creating the configuration file with `touch "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"`

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macOS Build Instructions and Notes

The commands in this guide should be executed in a Terminal application. The built-in one is located in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app.

Preparation

Install the macOS command line tools:

xcode-select --install

When the popup appears, click Install.

Then install Homebrew.

Base build dependencies

brew install automake libtool pkg-config

If you want to build the disk image with make deploy (.dmg / optional), you need RSVG

brew install librsvg

Building

It's possible that your PATH environment variable contains some problematic strings, run

export PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e '/\\/!s/ /\\ /g') # fix whitespaces

Next, follow the instructions in build-generic

Disable-wallet mode

When the intention is to run only a P2P node without a wallet, Bitcoin Core may be compiled in disable-wallet mode with:

./configure --disable-wallet

In this case there is no dependency on Berkeley DB 4.8.

Mining is also possible in disable-wallet mode using the getblocktemplate RPC call.

Running

Dash Core is now available at ./src/dashd

Before running, you may create an empty configuration file.

mkdir -p "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/DashCore"

touch "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/DashCore/dash.conf"

chmod 600 "/Users/${USER}/Library/Application Support/DashCore/dash.conf"

The first time you run dashd, it will start downloading the blockchain. This process could take several hours.

You can monitor the download process by looking at the debug.log file:

tail -f $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/DashCore/debug.log

Other commands:

./src/dashd -daemon # Starts the dash daemon.
./src/dash-cli --help # Outputs a list of command-line options.
./src/dash-cli help # Outputs a list of RPC commands when the daemon is running.

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