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989c8990bb765eef45c8ee471f084ca81a0bead4 Rename “OS X” to the newer “macOS” convention (Giulio Lombardo) Pull request description: Since 2016, with [macOS 10.12 Sierra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Sierra), Mac OS X has been renamed in macOS. It would be a nice if Bitcoin's macOS build instructions follow this naming convention to avoid misunderstandings. Tree-SHA512: 51b7d54bfc39a1a9d0773c64780817c7beca7094aded80481086287474dfa272bf0a1dfa6ef6e3cae91548aa127f65fa730003dddcb97147cdc8c249146aea22
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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
Running
Dash Core is now available at ./src/dashd
Before running, it's recommended you create an RPC configuration file.
echo -e "rpcuser=dashrpc\nrpcpassword=$(xxd -l 16 -p /dev/urandom)" > "/Users/${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.