Compiling Bitcoind on Raspberry Pi

A short step-by-step on how to compile Bitcoind on Raspberry Pi.

First thing you need to do is to increase the RPi’s Swap Size

$ sudo vim /etc/dphys-swapfile

Modify the line to change the setting from 100Mb to 500Mb.
CONF_SWAPSIZE=100
to
CONF_SWAPSIZE=500

Apply the changes
$ sudo dphys-swapfile setup $ sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff $ sudo dphys-swapfile swapon

Check the new swap size using free command
$ free

Update your Raspberry Pi’s packages
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade

Install all dependencies needed to compile the bitcoind
$ sudo apt-get install checkinstall subversion git git-core build-essential

$ sudo apt-get install libtool autotools-dev autoconf

$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libdb++-dev libminiupnpc-dev

$ sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-all-dev

After successfully installing the packages, go to your preferred directory for downloading the bitcoind source code to compile.
$ cd ~ $ mkdir source $ cd source $ git clone git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git $ cd ~/source/bitcoin/src

Prepare the bitcoin source code from github
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --without-gui

Now… grab something to eat or to watch while compiling. It’s gonna take a long while to compile.

After a few (maybe hours)… you may now configure your bitcoin.conf and run
$ ~/source/bitcoin/src/bitcoind -daemon

Watch out for my next post on setting-up bitcoind (bitcoin.conf settings)

Update:

For minimal configuration… create this file in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf



server=1

rpcuser={insert your preferred username}

rpcpassword={insert your preferred long hash password for security}

rpctimeout=30

rpcport=8332

gen=0

allowreceivebyip=1

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