MultiChain ========== [MultiChain](http://www.multichain.com/) is an open source platform for private blockchains, which offers a rich set of features including extensive configurability, rapid deployment, permissions management, native assets and data streams. Although it is designed to enable private blockchains, MultiChain provides maximal compatibility with the bitcoin ecosystem, including the peer-to-peer protocol, transaction/block formats and [Bitcoin Core](https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/) APIs/runtime parameters. Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Coin Sciences Ltd License: GNU General Public License version 3, see COPYING Portions copyright (c) 2009-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers Portions copyright many others - see individual files System requirements ------------------- These compilation instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 only. C++ compilers are memory-hungry, so it is recommended to have at least 1 GB of memory available when compiling MultiChain. With less memory, compilation may take much longer due to swapfile thrashing. Linux Build Notes (on Ubuntu 14.04 x64) ================= Install dependencies -------------------- sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev sudo apt-get install git sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev Compile MultiChain for Ubuntu (64-bit) ----------------------------- ./autogen.sh ./configure make Notes ----- * This will build `multichaind`, `multichain-cli` and `multichain-util` in the `src` directory. * The release is built with GCC after which `strip multichaind` strings the debug symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%. Windows Build Notes (on Ubuntu 14.04 x64) ===================== Install dependencies -------------------- sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils sudo apt-get install g++-mingw-w64-i686 mingw-w64-i686-dev g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 mingw-w64-x86-64-dev curl sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev sudo apt-get install git sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev Compile MultiChain for Windows (64-bit) ------------------------------ ./autogen.sh cd depends make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 -j4 cd .. ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32 --enable-cxx --disable-shared --enable-static --with-pic make Notes ----- * This will build `multichaind.exe`, `multichain-cli.exe` and `multichain-util.exe` in the `src` directory.