diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 3591302c..dd90ea32 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -8,17 +8,16 @@ This software is a proof-of-concept, a forced marriage between bitcoin and libtorrent codebases. So don't expect an easy ride. Building this thing is quite hacky (but hopefully not complicated). -In order to build twister you need to configure both bitcoin's and -libtorrent's. - -1) Start with libtorrent: +1) Twister relies on a bundled custom version of libtorrent, so +first you need to build that: $ cd libtorrent $ ./bootstrap.sh $ ./configure --enable-logging --enable-debug --enable-dht $ make -Note1: 64-bit systems may need "--with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib64" +Note1: 64-bit systems may need eg. "--with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib64" + or "--with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/" Note2: disable logging if you want, but at this point it might help to diagnose problems in case anything goes wrong.