bisq/doc/build.md

Building From Source

This guide will walk you through the process of building Bisq from source.

NOTE: For most users, building from source is not necessary. See the releases page, where you'll find installers for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

There is an install script (2 parts) for setup (JDK, Git, Bitcoinj, Bisq) on Linux in that directory (install_on_unix.sh, install_on_unix_fin.sh).

System requirements

The prerequisite for building Bisq is installing the Java Development Kit (JDK), version 8u131 or better (as well as Git).

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk git

In Debian/Ubuntu with OpenJDK you'll need OpenJFX as well, i.e. you'll need the openjfx package besides the openjdk-8-jdk package.

$ sudo apt-get install openjfx

1. Check the version of Java you currently have installed

$ java -version

If java is not found, or your version is anything less than 1.8.0_121, then follow the next steps, otherwise you can skip to step 2:

1.1 Debian based systems (Ubuntu)

You can use either OpenJDK or Oracle JDK.

To install OpenJDK use:

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk libopenjfx-java

Unfortunately, Ubuntu 14.04 & Linux Mint 17.3 are missing OpenJdk 8 and OpenJFX, so this might be useful:

If openjdk-8-jdk is not found you can add this ppa, update, then try again:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa && sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

If libopenjfx-java is not found you can build & install it yourself:

• How to install OpenJFX on Ubuntu 14.04 or Linux Mint 17.3

To install the Oracle JDK use:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -y install oracle-java8-installer

Check if $JAVA_HOME is set:

$ echo $JAVA_HOME

If $JAVA_HOME is not present, open your .bashrc file:

$ touch ~/.bashrc
$ gedit ~/.bashrc

• For OpenJDK add: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
• For Oracle JDK add: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
• For your current alternative JDK add: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java (or /usr/lib/jvm/default for Arch or /usr/lib/jvm/java for Fedora)

Save and close the file.

Reload the file in your shell:

$ . ~/.bashrc
$ echo $JAVA_HOME

1.2 Other systems

Download and install the latest Oracle JDK for your platform.

For Mac OSX, you will need to set JAVA_HOME as:

$ echo 'export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)' >> ~/.bashrc
$ . ~/.bashrc

2. If using Intellij install the Lombok plugin

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6317-lombok-plugin

Build Bisq

$ git clone https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq-desktop.git
$ cd bisq-desktop
$ ./gradlew build

When the build completes, run Bisq with the following script:

$ ./build/app/bin/bisq-desktop

Build binaries

If you want to build the binaries check out the build scripts under the package directory. Use the shaded.jar and the lib directory.

DAO full node

If you want to run your own BSQ transaction verification node you have to run Bitcoin Core with RPC enabled and use dedicated program arguments for the Bisq node. See https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq-desktop/blob/master/doc/rpc.md for more details.

Development mode

Please check out our wiki for more information about testing and how to use regtest

Here are example program arguments for using regtest with localhost environment (not using Tor):

$ bisq-desktop --baseCurrencyNetwork=BTC_REGTEST --useLocalhost=true --myAddress=localhost:2222 --nodePort=2222 --appName=bisq-Local-Regtest-Arbitrator

$ bisq-desktop --baseCurrencyNetwork=BTC_REGTEST --useLocalhost=true --myAddress=localhost:3333 --nodePort=3333 --appName=bisq-Local-Regtest-Alice

$ bisq-desktop --baseCurrencyNetwork=BTC_REGTEST --useLocalhost=true --myAddress=localhost:4444 --nodePort=4444 --appName=bisq-Local-Regtest-Bob

Running local seed node with Tor and RegTest

See the documentation at https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq-seednode

Problems?

If the instructions above don't work for you, please raise an issue. Thanks!