Desktop Wallet Build Quick Start

This page records the repeatable desktop wallet build flow for the modernized Agrarian tree.

Supported targets

The currently tested desktop wallet targets are:

Ubuntu 24.04 native x86_64: src/qt/agrarian-qt
Windows x86_64 cross build from Ubuntu: src/qt/agrarian-qt.exe

Use one job on small servers:

JOBS=1 ./contrib/build-linux-wallet.sh
JOBS=1 ./contrib/build-win64-wallet.sh

Use more jobs only when the host has enough memory.

Ubuntu package baseline

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
  build-essential pkg-config autoconf automake libtool bsdmainutils \
  curl git make tar patch

For the native Ubuntu wallet:

sudo apt-get install -y \
  qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools qtchooser \
  libqrencode-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

For the Windows wallet:

sudo apt-get install -y \
  mingw-w64 g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix \
  qttools5-dev-tools

Then select POSIX Mingw-w64 threading:

sudo update-alternatives --set x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-posix
sudo update-alternatives --set x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++-posix

Why the helpers exist

The wallet build is sensitive to tool version mismatches:

Native Ubuntu uses current system Qt tools and protobuf while keeping the deterministic depends libraries.
Windows uses the Qt 5.9.7 and protobuf 2.6.1 libraries from depends. Its host tools must match those libraries closely enough for generated C++ output to compile.

The helper scripts keep those rules in one place so the build is repeatable on a fresh server.

Expected artifacts

After the Ubuntu wallet build:

src/qt/agrarian-qt
src/agrariand
src/agrarian-cli
src/agrarian-tx

After the Windows wallet build:

src/qt/agrarian-qt.exe
src/agrariand.exe
src/agrarian-cli.exe
src/agrarian-tx.exe

Version checks

On Ubuntu:

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen src/qt/agrarian-qt --version
src/agrariand --version

For Windows binaries from the Linux build host:

file src/qt/agrarian-qt.exe src/agrariand.exe src/agrarian-cli.exe src/agrarian-tx.exe

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