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50 lines
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# bitcoind
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## Important Source Files
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- **bitcoind.cpp** - the main entry point, `main()` resides here. This calls
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`Appinit()`.
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- `AppInit()` also resides here, it eventually ends up calling AppInit2()
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which is the most important entry point for what we're doing. AppInit2()
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will be the handler of `$ bitcoind -server -daemon`.
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- **init.cpp** - `AppInit2()` resides here - this functions ends up calling
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`StartNode()` which spawns all of the threads for network activity (accepts
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the main `threadGroup`).
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- **net.cpp** - `StartNode()` resides here - starts all network threads.
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- **main.cpp** - misnamed file which handles all packet handling, framing and
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parsing.
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## Plan of Action
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### First Pass
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- Successfully link to bitcoind from our, currently barebones, c++ binding.
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- Expose one function from the c++ binding which essentially starts all the
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net.cpp threads and starts downloading the block chain and connecting to
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peers.
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### Second Pass
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- Start exposing more functions - a fully function bitcoin library
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- Reconcile the issues that may arise making certain calls async (libuv thread pool vs. bitcoind threads?)
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## Hurdles
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- If we expect people to install and compile this, on one core on an i5,
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bitcoind takes roughly 30 minutes to compile.
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``` bash
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git clean -xdf
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git checkout v0.9.0
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date | tee compile_time; ./autogen.sh
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./configure --with-incompatible-bdb
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make; date | tee -a compile_time
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cat compile_time
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Wed Aug 13 14:38:14 CDT 2014
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Wed Aug 13 15:07:49 CDT 2014
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```
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