BUILD_UBUNTU

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit) Build and Install Instructions

The following dependencies were necessary for a clean install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install autoconf cmake make automake libtool git libboost-all-dev libssl-dev g++ libcurl4-openssl-dev

Build BitShares Core

git clone https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-core.git
cd bitshares-core
git submodule update --init --recursive
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
make 

Build Support Boost Version

NOTE: BitShares requires a Boost version in the range [1.57 - 1.65.1]. Versions earlier than 1.57 or newer than 1.65.1 are NOT supported. If your system's Boost version is newer, then you will need to manually build an older version of Boost and specify it to CMake using DBOOST_ROOT.

The Boost which ships with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit) is too old. You need to download the Boost tarball for Boost 1.57.0 (Note, 1.58.0 requires C++14 and will not build on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit); this requirement was an accident, see this mailing list post).

BOOST_ROOT=$HOME/opt/boost_1_57_0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install autotools-dev build-essential libbz2-dev libicu-dev python-dev
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.57.0/boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2/download' -O boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
[ $( sha256sum boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 ) == "910c8c022a33ccec7f088bd65d4f14b466588dda94ba2124e78b8c57db264967" ] || ( echo 'Corrupt download' ; exit 1 )
tar xjf boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_57_0/
./bootstrap.sh "--prefix=$BOOST_ROOT"
./b2 install

Build with specific Boost version:

cmake -DBOOST_ROOT="$BOOST_ROOT" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
make