Building NameCoin under CentOS and RedHat 6.2
I am working on a project that runs on CentOS Linux 6.2 and requires operation of a customized NameCoin daemon and client. The first step to customize NameCoin is to build it on the target platform from source.
Instructions at the NameCoin GitHub page are quite brief and are tailored to Windows build. There is a bit more at NameCoin Wiki. However, even that is outdated, incomplete and do not quite work for CentOS (and RedHat for that matter). I think they are written for Ubuntu.
Here are my notes from tweaking the NameCoin build procedure to yield a successful build of the daemon and the client:
- Install required prerequisites yum install boost-static db4-cxx.x86_64 db4-devel.x86_64. boost-static is an umbrella package that brings in all other packages necessary for compiling against boost. NameCoin build instructions ask to download dependency libraries and place in the namecoin/lib directory. With these instructions there is no need to do that.
- Download the source code from GitHub or do git clone https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin.git
- Open the Makefile in namecoin/src directory and remove the -l boost_chrono$(LIBBOOST_SUFFIX) line. There is no libboost_chrono.so or libboost_chrono.a library under CentOS as required code/symbols are included in other boost component libraries
- Go to namecoin/src directory and type make
- Enjoy the result!