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Monero-Core build instructions?

Yes, written instructions for installing Monero on your system can be found here with a video tutorial including GUI setup and testing here Dependencies: # update Ubuntu's repository sudo apt update ...
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GUI pull request to build and install monerod

GUI daemon manager is recently merged into monero-core. I.e you can start/stop local daemon from GUI. This PR basically means that monerod is getting built when you build the GUI. Unfortunately win32 ...
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Fatal Error when trying to build monero-core

Got some help from radfish on github... https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core/issues/52 Here's what radfish said... You need to manually merge monero-project/monero-core/PR # 14 in order to ...
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Compile from source

There are instructions in the github repo: https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source If you get stuck, I suggest asking the specific question to help you move forward, ...
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Where can I find binary (alpha) builds of the Monero GUI?

At this time, there are not any compiled alpha GUI binaries. That being said, when such binaries exist, the only safe places to download said binaries from are: Github - https://github.com/monero-...
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How do I build Monero for Windows from source?

It is much harder to compile software for Windows than it is for GNU/Linux or MacOSX. Instructions do exist in one of Ilya Kitaev's GitHub forks, but they haven't been merged yet at time of writing. ...
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How to download latest builds from the Monero Buildbot?

You can download the files for the build you would like to examine under the "Steps and Logfiles" section. For Windows, you will often find a .zip file. The file you can download is underlined in red. ...
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Monerod Deterministic build

There is no such thing yet, but is a a long wanted goal. Progress along those lines was made in the last few months, with an automated build system based on Travis, maintained by a contributor under ...
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How can I build a specific branch of Monero?

Start by opening a terminal and installing all the dependencies: sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev && cd /usr/src/gtest && sudo cmake . && sudo make && sudo mv libg* /...
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How do I fix build error about fPIC?

I did this to recompile libgtest-dev with -fPIC and it worked for me. sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev cd /usr/src/gtest/ sudo cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fPIC" sudo make sudo mv libg* /usr/lib/
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GUI build error about "undefined reference"

This is libunwind. It probably was wrongly detected. In the meantime, you should be able to build by removing libunwind-dev (or similar) from your system. It might also be that you changed your ...
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Monero project visual c++

The Monero code is built using gcc. There is no support for building with Microsoft's tools, and it is not expected to work.
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Updating my monero master

Sure, assuming you have not made any branches, and that doesn't sound likely, follow these steps: if you have made any changes to the repo: git stash git pull --rebase if you have made any changes to ...
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If I compile from source, how can I change default wallet and daemon 10-block lock time?

All that's required is to change one line of code in the cryptonote_config.h: #define CRYPTONOTE_DEFAULT_TX_SPENDABLE_AGE 10 and build with the new value.
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How to build MyMonero wallet for Windows?

The MyMonero desktop app is built with Electron. To build it you need to install NodeJS and NPM. After installing Node, download the source code from GitHub, open command prompt and go to the ...
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Build/Install Instructions for MyMonero App on Android using node/npm

There are instructions in the Github repo: https://github.com/mymonero/mymonero-app-js/blob/master/docs/PRODUCTION_BUILDS.md
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Can't verify Gitian deterministic build signatures with GPG

I found out that the problem was in line endings. On Windows it's defaulted to CRLF of course with core.autocrlf set to true. If I manually change line endings to Unix-style LF all checks pass okay: ...
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How was the official Monero website hacked to deliver malware at the end of 2019?

It was the server hosting the binaries that was compromised during this attack. Luckily signed files with the genuine binary hashes were available on other sources and servers, so the attack was ...
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Problem building release-v0.16

You either need to upgrade boost or use this PR: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/6612 An earlier PR got merged that broke boost compatibility.
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How do I build Kovri from source for OpenBSD?

Kovri build instructions are on the main Kovri repository here: https://github.com/monero-project/kovri/blob/master/doc/BUILDING.md This document will always be the most up-to-date location for ...
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How do I build the Monero source for OpenBSD?

Build instructions are on the main repository's main README.md page: https://github.com/monero-project/monero#on-openbsd As this is bound to change, and that location will always be the most up-to-...
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How do I fix build error about fPIC?

The problem being experienced has to do with how the compiler uses libraries. As noted in the github link provided by Florian, one solution to this problem is simply to uninstall libgtest-dev. This ...
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Monero GUI will not build on Debian 8

Monero will be built only if GCC 5 and G++ 5 are installed in your system.
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Building Monero Fails but works?

The simple answer is that make will build a whole bunch of stuff (i.e., monerod, monero-wallet-cli, monero-wallet-gui, monero-blockchain-import, etc., along with all the files it compiles as ...
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Can monero be compiled/linked statically?

You can't make static monero binaries. The closest you can do is a dynamic build which links statically against most libraries, such as boost, etc. The Makefile has a number of predefined targets for ...
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Can monero be compiled/linked statically?

More recently there are submodules in the Monero source tree, thus you must git submodule init && git submodule update from the root of a cloned repository. Then to link statically, make ...
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Building Monero From Source on Windows 10 Pro

To solve this, rename the directory C:\Users\...\monero\build\release e.g. to C:\Users\...\monero\build\zzzrelease
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Error building monero-stratum on macOS

My '/path/to/monero' was not correct. I was, incorrectly, pointing to monero binaries instead of source. Changing the path, to point to source corrects the problem.
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How can I build a specific branch of Monero?

A present date solution that is more compact (installs the submodules and checks out the branch automatically when cloning) is: sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential cmake pkg-...
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