Dependencies
These are the dependencies currently used by Bitcoin Cash Node. You can find
instructions for installing them in the build-*.md file for your platform.
These dependencies are required:
| Dependency | Version used | Minimum required | CVEs | Shared | Bundled Qt library | Purpose | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley DB | 5.3.28 | 5.3 | No | Wallet storage | Only needed when wallet enabled | ||
| Boost | 1.70.0 | 1.58.0 | No | Utility | Library for threading, data structures, etc | ||
| Clang | 8.0.0 (C++17 support) | ||||||
| CMake | 3.13 | ||||||
| Expat | 2.2.7 | No | Yes | ||||
| fontconfig | 2.12.6 | No | Yes | ||||
| FreeType | 2.7.1 | No | |||||
| GCC | 8.3.0 (C++17 support) | ||||||
| HarfBuzz-NG | |||||||
| help2man | Manpages | Optional, used for building manpages | |||||
| jemalloc | 5.2.1 | ||||||
| libevent | 2.1.12-stable | 2.0.22 | No | Networking | OS independent asynchronous networking | ||
| libjpeg | Yes | ||||||
| libpng | Yes | ||||||
| MiniUPnPc | 2.0.20180203 | 1.5 | No | UPnP Support | Firewall-jumping support | ||
| Ninja | 1.5.1 | ||||||
| OpenSSL | 1.1.1n | Yes | Crypto | Random Number Generation, Elliptic Curve Cryptography | |||
| PCRE | Yes | ||||||
| protobuf | 2.6.1 | No | Payments in GUI | Data interchange format used for payment protocol (only needed when BIP70 enabled) | |||
| Python (tests) | 3.6 | ||||||
| qrencode | 3.4.4 | No | QR codes in GUI | Optional for generating QR codes (only needed when GUI enabled) | |||
| Qt | 5.15.3 | 5.5.1 | No | GUI | GUI toolkit (only needed when GUI enabled) | ||
| univalue | Utility | JSON parsing and encoding (bundled version will be used unless --with-system-univalue passed to configure) | |||||
| XCB | Yes (Linux only) | ||||||
| xkbcommon | Yes (Linux only) | ||||||
| ZeroMQ | 4.3.1 | 4.1.5 | No | ZMQ notification | Optional, allows generating ZMQ notifications (requires ZMQ version >= 4.1.5) | ||
| zlib | 1.2.11 | No |