jnewbery / btc-dev

Development environment for bitcoin

btc-dev

Virtual machine configuration for development environment for bitcoin.

What it's doing

Provisioning a bitcoin development environment by grabbing all the dependencies, then building bitcoin from source.

Running the VM

Requirements for both local and remote VMs

• Make sure that vagrant is installed.
• git clone this repository and git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin (or a fork) into the same directory. The bitcoin directory will sync into the VM.

Running locally using Virtualbox

• Make sure that Virtualbox is installed.
• Run vagrant up to start the machine.

What to do next

• log into your VM using vagrant ssh
• run bitcoind, run bitcoin tests, etc
• fix bugs, write code, open pull request