Gitian is an excellent package to build cryptocurrency (and other) software, but it's not easy, even for many developers. EasyGitian was made to serve my own purposes, and has grown into something that hopefully provides some benefit to the rest of the crypto community.
Every build, whether for testing or production takes time and costs money
Living off the grid, I'm very sensitive to how many watts are burned in the course of running each build, the costs of being online for each build, and the costs in time and bandwidth to repeat steps for the myriad reasons each build might fail.
There's always room to improve, and always more coins and applications to support.
Today EasyGitian will help you build most bitcoin derived wallet packages, up to BitcoinCore version 0.14.x and Bitcoin-ABC version 0.14.6. It was developed against
Bitcoin-ABC 0.14.6 PIVX 3.0.0 MAZA 0.10.3 0.10.2 DASH 0.13.0
If your coin follows the patters for gitian descriptors and repos that are followed by those coins, you should have no trouble building with EasyGitian.
If not, I'm always happy to help
If EasyGitian has helped you or your team, you can show your appreciation by:
- Tweeting the link to the github repo
- Buying me a beer In person, or you can send some (maybe even some you made!)
- Sending cold hard Cash! Everyone likes cash, especially my generator. It takes almost any kind of crypto you have See below for addresses that I've already prepared.
If you'd like EasyGitian to work with your coin, I'm happy to add it. You pay gas ;) It takes a few hours to build a full set of dependencies on my 2010 core i7 Macbook in Linux or MacOS, which is about a tankful on my generator, and it takes a few builds before everything is right.
On the roadmap for this project is the ability to use other Vagrant "providers". Virtualbox is but one possible "provider" of the underlying Virtual Machine. Vagrant plugins are available for most major VPS providers, including Amazon AWS, Digital Ocean, and more. These cost not only time (gas), but the VPS provider needs some too.
aws azure bhyve brightbox cloudstack digitalocean ganeti google hp joyent linode libvirt lxc openstack openstack-provider openvz parallels proxmox rackspace scaleway skytap softlayer vcenter vcloud vcloudair veertu vmware-appcatalyst vmware-esxi vsphere vultr
For docker fans, there's gitian-docker
- my development of docker tools has slowed due to the difficulty of keeping pace with upstream Docker development, and breaking changes. If you'd like to see updates to gitian-docker or any of my other docker tools, please contact me on Twitter or Telegram (@guruvan)
If you'd like to send something other than the above I'll send you an address!
Payment Addresses available to support EasyGitian development
- MAZA MZC M9uaYerMyYLgWyNrPxCdLhscERpFzsTQwk
- BitcoinCash BCC 1VytCGCzLdNpzhkkCCyfsHhSpQfLEnCFD
- PIVX PIVX P
- DASH DASH XbGVc2VtbuAJDjKJjtMo2UkoXNZ6FWBNNK
- UNO UNO ui2tDtYDjX5c4cZpF5n3rbSrTZT4my7Mcb
- BitcoinCore BTC 12ggvHzdwPMhANHhdCpGxCovmRzj2dzcJb
- Dogecoin DOGE DRsrNceS2yopnNVrMxEV4nqkqtyehC44jL
- Litecoin LTC LRHbdfTQQo2PHyk9WepMZy91sCRcBFDVhL
- Zcash ZEC t1U7ZULryXpBzyeeqAXMJkc2jF32gnXxmNX
- Monero XMR 4ALcw9nTAStZSshoWVUJakZ6tLwTDhixhQUQNJkCn4t3fG3MMK19WZM44HnQRvjqmz4LkkA8t565v7iBwQXx2r34HNroSAZ d300895eccc877d2a9377a1ed40a5e9a707ee2d4bad056bcf7626803fcbeafe3
- Ethereum ETH 0xBb17cfC9ab8123Cc0A33559DA9EB03C31DbD0d18
- EthClassic ETC 0x2cc730CCcbA00bf3F5E519B05BC5C3f6AC0863c5
- PeerCoin PPC PWduoamjxv75cBGgzb26BsENLks1ZTCxbT
- FeatherCoin FTC 6faYDckRgcfncaAYC2AS8adqFQXKPGyyac
- GroestlCoin GRS FiPDoeq1wwyk6391X9Uga21LjTbs88XyRp
- MyriadCoin MYR MH4snU7ufkbUd6VYyvDsxttuunASHmRy5v
- DigiByte DGB DMJ5eSvGHXqVDkGtWbK5jLzEPymcnGuz89
If you'd like to send something other than the above I'll send you an address! This file is signed via keybase and standard gpg