Building from source¶

Overview¶

The cpp-ethereum codebase is spread over several Git repositories which are all grouped as sub-modules under the webthree-umbrella repo on Github.

We use a common CMake build system to generate platform-specific build files, meaning that the workflow is very similar whatever operating system you use:

• Install build tools and external packages (these are platform dependent)
• Clone the source code from the webthree-umbrella git repository
• Run CMake to generate a build file (makefile, Visual Studio solution, etc)
• Build it

Platform-specific instructions¶