Build Qtum on CentOS 7

CentOS is an enterprise-oriented Linux distribution, that means it's focused for stability and security but not necessarily the latest software. With that being said, you cannot currently build Qtum in CentOS 7 following the steps that other more recent distributions can use.

In this document we'll show how to build Qtum in CentOS 7 and produce a static binary which can then be executed on any other Linux distribution, even if it's more recent.

General Prerequisites

Update Yum repositories

    sudo yum update

Install development tools and libraries

Getting ready:

sudo yum install -y tar unzip git which wget patch make autoconf automake libtool \
    epel-release centos-release-scl centos-release-scl-rh finduitls vim mc openssl-devel \
    file

Enable Devtoolset-7

yum install -y devtoolset-7-gcc* && \
    echo "source scl_source enable devtoolset-7" >> /root/.bashrc
source scl_source enable devtoolset-7

Clone Qtum Github source:

git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum

Building Qtum

cd qtum && make -C depends/
DEPENDS="$(pwd)/depends/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$DEPENDS
make

Please keep in mind, this will produce a static build and it will take longer than a normal build.