bitcore-node-zcash/notes.md

bitcoind

Important Source Files

• bitcoind.cpp - the main entry point, main() resides here. This calls Appinit().

  • AppInit() also resides here, it eventually ends up calling AppInit2() which is the most important entry point for what we're doing. AppInit2() will be the handler of $ bitcoind -server -daemon.

• init.cpp - AppInit2() resides here - this functions ends up calling StartNode() which spawns all of the threads for network activity (accepts the main threadGroup).

• net.cpp - StartNode() resides here - starts all network threads.

• main.cpp - misnamed file which handles all packet handling, framing and parsing.

Plan of Action

First Pass

• Successfully link to bitcoind from our, currently barebones, c++ binding.
• Expose one function from the c++ binding which essentially starts all the net.cpp threads and starts downloading the block chain and connecting to peers.

Second Pass

• Start exposing more functions - a fully function bitcoin library
• Reconcile the issues that may arise making certain calls async (libuv thread pool vs. bitcoind threads?)

Hurdles

• If we expect people to install and compile this, on one core on an i5, bitcoind takes roughly 30 minutes to compile.

git clean -xdf
git checkout v0.9.0
date | tee compile_time; ./autogen.sh
./configure --with-incompatible-bdb
make; date | tee -a compile_time
cat compile_time
Wed Aug 13 14:38:14 CDT 2014
Wed Aug 13 15:07:49 CDT 2014