Ubuntu 24.04 Daemon Build Notes

These notes describe the native daemon build path tested against current Ubuntu 24.04 system packages.

Recommended host size

Use at least 2 GB RAM for a reliable build. A 512 MB host with 2 GB swap can configure successfully, but compilation is extremely slow and may time out while building large translation units.

Packages

Install the native build dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
  build-essential pkg-config autoconf automake libtool bsdmainutils \
  libboost-all-dev libevent-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev \
  libdb5.3-dev libdb5.3++-dev

Daemon-only build

For the pool daemon, the GUI, tests, bench, ZMQ, and UPnP can be disabled:

./autogen.sh
./configure \
  --without-gui \
  --disable-tests \
  --disable-bench \
  --disable-zmq \
  --with-miniupnpc=no \
  --with-incompatible-bdb \
  CXXFLAGS="-O0 -g0 --param ggc-min-expand=1 --param ggc-min-heapsize=32768"
make -j1

OpenSSL 3

Ubuntu 24.04 ships OpenSSL 3. Agrarian no longer rejects this only because RAND_egd is unavailable. Some deprecated OpenSSL SHA calls still warn during compilation; those warnings are expected until the hashing helper code is modernized.

Berkeley DB

Ubuntu 24.04 provides Berkeley DB 5.3. Wallet builds with BDB 5.3 are not portable back to BDB 4.8 wallet environments, so only use wallets created by this build with compatible BDB 5.3 builds.

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