Guix Development Environment for libbitcoin

Goals

• To create an isolated dev environment for libbitcoin libraries which can promote hacking on the project.

• Provide a simple (if you can consider Guix simple), reproducible build for a libbitcoin-node or libbitcoin-server

First Checkout

Pulling all submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Building a package

guix shell -L guix libbitcoin-node

Starting a dev environment

guix shell -m manifest.scm

Running a node

guix shell -L guix libbitcoin-node
bn

Updating all submodules to head

git submodule update --recursive --remote