Trying to compile on Mac

Question

Hi,

I am pretty new to Multichain. Currently trying to compile on Mac (as no binary is available). 

Trying to execute 

./configure --with-gui=no --with-libs=no --with-miniupnpc=no

just can't find the configure script in the source. Can anyone help?

Thanks 

Patrick

Answer 1

This should be generated by the autogen.sh script in the step before you run that ./configure command - did you run that script?

Comments

Thanks!

Actually, running autopen.sh wasn't mentioned on the Github page in the Mac section.

I went through compiler successfully. but ended with an error in Make:

rpc/rpcserver.cpp:551:49: error: too many template arguments for class template
      'basic_socket_acceptor'

I am not running as root (as make is creating in src from my understanding). Any idea? :-)

Thanks

Patrick

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Thanks, looks like the autogen.sh line is in some branches (including the master) but not in others. We'll fix that.

As for the compile time error, this appears to be a result of recent changes in the Boost library. If you can compile with Boost 1.6.5 that is likely to help.

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Thanks!

I have tried to install v 1.65 (as I do have 1.66) via brew install, but it returned a few errors. Not sure that it would be the best way to go now.

I tried to compile with v2.0 release and got the following errors:

json/json_spirit_ubjson.cpp:358:39: error: conversion from 'size_type'
      (aka 'unsigned long') to 'const
...
json/json_spirit_ubjson.cpp:446:37: error: conversion from 'size_type'
      (aka 'unsigned long') to 'const
...
1 warning and 2 errors generated.
make[1]: *** [json/libbitcoin_server_a-json_spirit_ubjson.o] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1




Thanks again

Patrick

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There's a Mac fix branch that fixes some compilation errors with the json_spirit library - please try compiling that: https://github.com/MultiChain/multichain/tree/1.0.x-mac-fix

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Thanks, I did try this option as well. But following your suggestion, I started from a clean distribution of the Mac-fix branch. I did follow all the steps and ended with 6 errors

rpc/rpcserver.cpp:551:49: error: too many template arguments for class template
      'basic_socket_acceptor'
  ...basic_socket_acceptor<Protocol, SocketAcceptorService> > acceptor,
     ^                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/local/include/boost/asio/basic_socket_acceptor.hpp:73:7: note: template is
      declared here
class basic_socket_acceptor
      ^
rpc/rpcserver.cpp:561:42: error: too many template arguments for class template
      'basic_socket_acceptor'
  ...basic_socket_acceptor<Protocol, SocketAcceptorService> > acceptor,
     ^                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/local/include/boost/asio/basic_socket_acceptor.hpp:73:7: note: template is
      declared here
class basic_socket_acceptor
      ^
rpc/rpcserver.cpp:584:49: error: too many template arguments for class template
      'basic_socket_acceptor'
  ...basic_socket_acceptor<Protocol, SocketAcceptorService> > acceptor,
     ^                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/local/include/boost/asio/basic_socket_acceptor.hpp:73:7: note: template is
      declared here
class basic_socket_acceptor
      ^
rpc/rpcserver.cpp:681:27: error: no matching constructor for initialization of
      'ssl::context'
    rpc_ssl_context = new ssl::context(*rpc_io_service, ssl::context::sslv23);
                          ^            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/local/include/boost/asio/ssl/impl/context.ipp:63:10: note: candidate
      constructor not viable: requires single argument 'm', but 2 arguments were
      provided
context::context(context::method m)
         ^
/usr/local/include/boost/asio/ssl/context.hpp:36:7: note: candidate constructor
      (the implicit copy constructor) not viable: requires 1 argument, but 2
      were provided
class context
      ^
rpc/rpcserver.cpp:700:50: error: no member named 'impl' in
      'boost::asio::ssl::context'
        SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(rpc_ssl_context->impl(), strCiphers.c_str());
                                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ^
rpc/rpcserver.cpp:760:13: error: no matching function for call to 'RPCListen'
            RPCListen(acceptor, *rpc_ssl_context, fUseSSL);
            ^~~~~~~~~
6 errors generated.
make[1]: *** [rpc/libbitcoin_server_a-rpcserver.o] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Thanks for your help!

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Those errors again look like they stem from compiling against a more recent version of Boost than the one MultiChain is currently build with.

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Just uninstall boost and brew install boost@1.5.7 or 1.5.8
then run:
brew link boost@1.5.7 --force

It will fix this issue.