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63ce882760e1ceb4114c716851aedaf911ebb93b doc: link to homebrew's troubleshooting page (Gastón I. Silva)
Pull request description:
A trivial documentation update.
When I was following the build steps for mac, I had some errors installing the dependencies. After searching on the Internet, and correcting the errors, I found that `brew doctor` had all the answers I needed. Could have skipped the Internet searches all together.
ACKs for top commit:
fanquake:
ACK 63ce882760e1ceb4114c716851aedaf911ebb93b - a link to the troubleshooting page seems fine. I wouldn't really want our README to have anything more specific than that.
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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 libnatpmp
If you run into issues, check Homebrew's troubleshooting page.
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, Dash 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 many hours, or even days on slower than average systems.
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.