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fanquake 71d35e9723 Merge #15964 : Docs: Improve build-osx document formatting

dbd137a4ea8f1b5dfc5cdc72cee99c8f8328b793 Improve build-osx formatting (Giulio Lombardo)

Pull request description:

  This `PR` will improve `build-osx.md` formatting by:

  1. Updating Markdown syntax to the latest one
  2. Adding syntax highlighting to all code blocks
  3. Aligning the text up to `80` column guideline (before it was following different guidelines, sometime `80`, sometime `90`, etc.)
  4. Small grammar improvements here and there

ACKs for top commit:
  fanquake:
    ACK dbd137a4ea8f1b5dfc5cdc72cee99c8f8328b793 - Document reads and renders essentially the same as the current `build-osx.md`, with minor formatting / grammatical  changes.

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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 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.

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