Compiling and testing

Ta-da! The moment we have been waiting for has finally arrived.

As we have done at the beginning of this chapter to build Bitcoin, we will reproduce the same steps. Thus, let's run the following commands:

./autogen.sh
./configure --with-gui=qt5 --enable-debug --disable-tests
make && sudo make install

Successful compilation and installation should output as follows:

The expected end result would be to build the executable programs readercoind and readercoin-qt. You can check this by running the following:

ls ./src/readercoind ./src/qt/readercoin-qt

Awesome! Start your client using readercoin-qt.

A graphical interface will show up asking to set the default directory, but it will show you the Bitcoin logo and icon. Admittedly, it's inconvenient to keep these graphical fingerprints, so let's get rid of them. Before going further, shut down the running Readercoin client.