Introduction

This page documents the process of building SChernykh’s P2Pool Software.

Deployment Architecture

I put source code in /opt/src and installed software in /opt/prod. For example:

Directory	Description
`/opt/src/p2pool-v4.6`	Source code
`/opt/prod/p2pool-v4.6`	Installed code
`/opt/prod/p2pool`	Symlink to installed code directory

Within the installed software directories I use the following convention:

Directory	Description
`bin`	Directory to house executibles
`logs`	Directory to house logs
`conf`	Directory to house configuration files
`run`	Directory to contain temporary runtime files

Install Pre-Requisites

On my Debian system:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git build-essential cmake libuv1-dev libzmq3-dev libsodium-dev libpgm-dev libnorm-dev libgss-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libidn2-0-dev

Download the Source Code

I keep source code in /opt/src. In the example below, the p2pool version is 4.6, be sure to update the directory name (p2pool-v4.6) if your version is more recent.

cd /opt/src
sudo git clone --recursive https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool
sudo mv p2pool p2pool-v4.6

This clones the SChernykh P2Pool repository into the p2pool directory and renames he directory to reflect the specific version of P2Pool that was downloaded.

Configure the Source Code

Assuming you are building P2Pool version 4.6:

cd /opt/src/p2pool-v4.6
sudo mkdir build

sudo cmake --install-prefix=/opt/prod/p2pool-v4.6 -DWITH_MERGE_MINING_DONATION=OFF -DSTATIC_BINARY=ON ..

Build and Install P2Pool

Assuming you are building P2Pool version 4.6:

cd /opt/src/p2pool-v4.6/build
NUM_PROCS=4
sudo make -j${NUM_PROCS)
sudo make install

-where NUM_PROCS (4 in the example above) is the number of CPU cores you want to dedicate to the build process.

I keep custom installed software in /opt/prod. I create a version specific directory (e.g. p2pool-v4.6) to house the code. I also create a generic symlink that points at the version (e.g. p2pool). I reference the symlink in my start/stop scripts when configuring P2Pool as a service (see the links section below). When I upgrade P2Pool I do not have to change my start/stop scripts.

cd /opt/prod
sudo rm -f p2pool
sudo ln -s p2pool-v4.6 p2pool

NOTE:
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1.3
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libz.so
-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/libz.a
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zconf.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/include/zlib.h
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/man/man3/zlib.3
-- Installing: /usr/local/share/pkgconfig/zlib.pc

Building P2Pool from Source