core-lightning/INSTALL.md

Library Requirements

You will need several development libraries:

• libprotoc: the Google protocol buffer v2 library, 2.6.0 or above.
• protobuf-c: version 1.1.0 or above.
• libsqlite3: for database support.
• libgmp: for secp256k1

For actually doing development and running the tests, you will also need:

• pip3: to install python-bitcoinlib
• asciidoc: for formatting the man pages (if you change them)
• valgrind: for extra debugging checks

You will also need a version of bitcoind with segregated witness support, such as the 0.13 or above.

To Build on Ubuntu 16.04

Get dependencies:

sudo apt-get install -y autoconf build-essential git libtool libprotobuf-c-dev libgmp-dev libsqlite3-dev python3 net-tools

If you don't have Bitcoin installed locally you'll need to install that as well:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y bitcoind

For development or running tests, get additional dependencies:

sudo apt-get install -y asciidoc valgrind python3-pip
sudo pip3 install python-bitcoinlib

Clone lightning:

git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
cd lightning

Build lightning:

make

Running lightning:

bitcoind &
./daemon/lightningd &
./daemon/lightning-cli help

Note: You may need to include testnet=1 in bitcoin.conf

To Build on Ubuntu 15.10

Build protobuf-c dependency (>= 1.1.0):

sudo apt-get install libprotoc-dev
git clone https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c.git
cd protobuf-c
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
cd ../

Clone lightning:

git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git
cd lighting

Build lightning:

make

Running lightning:

bitcoind
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
./daemon/lightningd
./daemon/lightning-cli help