Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2013 NovaCoin Developers
Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in
the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/). This product includes
-cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com) and UPnP
-software written by Thomas Bernard.
+cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
UNIX BUILD NOTES
--------
cd src/
-make -f makefile.unix # Headless bitcoin
+make -f makefile.unix # Headless novacoin
-See readme-qt.rst for instructions on building Bitcoin QT,
-the graphical bitcoin.
+See readme-qt.rst for instructions on building NovaCoin QT,
+the graphical novacoin.
Dependencies
------------
libssl SSL Support Secure communications
libdb4.8 Berkeley DB Blockchain & wallet storage
libboost Boost C++ Library
- miniupnpc UPnP Support Optional firewall-jumping support
libqrencode QRCode generation Optional QRCode generation
Note that libexecinfo should be installed, if you building under *BSD systems.
This library provides backtrace facility.
-miniupnpc may be used for UPnP port mapping. It can be downloaded from
-http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/. UPnP support is compiled in and
-turned off by default. Set USE_UPNP to a different value to control this:
- USE_UPNP=- No UPnP support - miniupnp not required
- USE_UPNP=0 (the default) UPnP support turned off by default at runtime
- USE_UPNP=1 UPnP support turned on by default at runtime
-
-libqrencode may be used for QRCode image generation. It can be downloaded
+libqrencode is used for QRCode image generation. It can be downloaded
from http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.html.en, or installed via
-your package manager. Set USE_QRCODE to control this:
- USE_QRCODE=0 (the default) No QRCode support - libqrcode not required
- USE_QRCODE=1 QRCode support enabled
+your package manager.
Licenses of statically linked libraries:
Berkeley DB New BSD license with additional requirement that linked
software must be free open source
Boost MIT-like license
- miniupnpc New (3-clause) BSD license
Versions used in this release:
GCC 4.3.3
OpenSSL 0.9.8g
Berkeley DB 4.8.30.NC
Boost 1.37
- miniupnpc 1.6
Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian
----------------------------------------------
Dependency Build Instructions: Gentoo
-------------------------------------
-Note: If you just want to install bitcoind on Gentoo, you can add the Bitcoin
+Note: If you just want to install novacoind on Gentoo, you can add the Novacoin
overlay and use your package manager:
- layman -a bitcoin && emerge bitcoind
+ layman -a novacoin && emerge novacoind
emerge -av1 --noreplace boost glib openssl sys-libs/db:4.8
-Take the following steps to build (no UPnP support):
- cd ${BITCOIN_DIR}/src
- make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP= BDB_INCLUDE_PATH='/usr/include/db4.8'
- strip bitcoind
+Take the following steps to build:
+ cd ${NOVACOIN_DIR}/src
+ make -f makefile.unix BDB_INCLUDE_PATH='/usr/include/db4.8'
+ strip novacoind
Notes
-----
-The release is built with GCC and then "strip bitcoind" to strip the debug
+The release is built with GCC and then "strip novacoind" to strip the debug
symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.
-
-miniupnpc
----------
-tar -xzvf miniupnpc-1.6.tar.gz
-cd miniupnpc-1.6
-make
-sudo su
-make install
-
-
Berkeley DB
-----------
You need Berkeley DB 4.8. If you have to build Berkeley DB yourself:
Security
--------
-To help make your bitcoin installation more secure by making certain attacks impossible to
+To help make your novacoin installation more secure by making certain attacks impossible to
exploit even if a vulnerability is found, you can take the following measures:
* Position Independent Executable
make -f makefile.unix ... -e PIE=1
To test that you have built PIE executable, install scanelf, part of paxutils, and use:
- scanelf -e ./bitcoin
+ scanelf -e ./novacoin
The output should contain:
TYPE
* Non-executable Stack
If the stack is executable then trivial stack based buffer overflow exploits are possible if
- vulnerable buffers are found. By default, bitcoin should be built with a non-executable stack
+ vulnerable buffers are found. By default, novacoin should be built with a non-executable stack
but if one of the libraries it uses asks for an executable stack or someone makes a mistake
and uses a compiler extension which requires an executable stack, it will silently build an
executable without the non-executable stack protection.
To verify that the stack is non-executable after compiling use:
- scanelf -e ./bitcoin
+ scanelf -e ./novacoin
the output should contain:
STK/REL/PTL