Compiling Dash Core

While Dash offers stable binary builds on the website and on GitHub, and development builds using Jenkins, many users will also be interested in building Dash binaries for themselves. This process has been greatly simplified with the release of Dash Core 0.13.0, and users who do not required deterministic builds can typically follow the generic build notes available on GitHub to compile or cross-compile Dash for any platform.

The instructions to build Dash Core 0.12.3 or older are available here on a previous version of this page.

Gitian

Gitian is the deterministic build process that is used to build the Dash Core executables. It provides a way to be reasonably sure that the executables are really built from the source on GitHub. It also makes sure that the same, tested dependencies are used and statically built into the executable. Multiple developers build the source code by following a specific descriptor (“recipe”), cryptographically sign the result, and upload the resulting signature. These results are compared and only if they match, the build is accepted and uploaded to dash.org.

Instructions on how to build Dash Core 0.13.0 will appear here once the Docker build system for Gitian is available. Instructions to create deterministic builds of Dash Core 0.12.3 or older are available here on a previous version of this page.