doc: add libgmp dependency for secp256k1

Also reorganize the document a bit.
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Wladimir J. van der Laan 2014-11-19 16:15:39 +01:00
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Dependencies
---------------------
These dependencies are required:
Library | Purpose | Description
------------|------------------|----------------------
libssl | SSL Support | Secure communications
libdb4.8 | Berkeley DB | Wallet storage
libboost | Boost | C++ Library
miniupnpc | UPnP Support | Optional firewall-jumping support
qt | GUI | GUI toolkit
protobuf | Payments in GUI | Data interchange format used for payment protocol
libqrencode | QR codes in GUI | Optional for generating QR codes
libgmp | secp256k1 | Arbitrary-precision arithmetic (version >= 3.1)
[miniupnpc](http://miniupnp.free.fr/) may be used for UPnP port mapping. It can be downloaded from [here](
http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/). UPnP support is compiled in and
turned off by default. See the configure options for upnp behavior desired:
Optional dependencies:
--without-miniupnpc No UPnP support miniupnp not required
--disable-upnp-default (the default) UPnP support turned off by default at runtime
--enable-upnp-default UPnP support turned on by default at runtime
Library | Purpose | Description
------------|------------------|----------------------
miniupnpc | UPnP Support | Firewall-jumping support
libdb4.8 | Berkeley DB | Wallet storage (only needed when wallet enabled)
qt | GUI | GUI toolkit (only needed when GUI enabled)
protobuf | Payments in GUI | Data interchange format used for payment protocol (only needed when GUI enabled)
libqrencode | QR codes in GUI | Optional for generating QR codes (only needed when GUI enabled)
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
- For the versions used in the release, see doc/release-process.md under *Fetch and build inputs*.
For the versions used in the release, see [release-process.md](release-process.md) under *Fetch and build inputs*.
System requirements
--------------------
@ -64,7 +58,7 @@ Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian
----------------------------------------------
Build requirements:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev libgmp-dev
for Ubuntu 12.04 and later or Debian 7 and later libboost-all-dev has to be installed:
@ -129,6 +123,17 @@ symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.
miniupnpc
---------
[miniupnpc](http://miniupnp.free.fr/) may be used for UPnP port mapping. It can be downloaded from [here](
http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/). UPnP support is compiled in and
turned off by default. See the configure options for upnp behavior desired:
--without-miniupnpc No UPnP support miniupnp not required
--disable-upnp-default (the default) UPnP support turned off by default at runtime
--enable-upnp-default UPnP support turned on by default at runtime
To build:
tar -xzvf miniupnpc-1.6.tar.gz
cd miniupnpc-1.6
make