Needs more build notes

[ChristopherA]

The three build commands worked fine on my Mac, but on a default install of Debian 8 (and probably Ubuntu) it needs more details.

By default autoconf is not installed, so sudo apt-get install autoconf is required.

Then when try autogenI get:

$ ./autogen.sh
configure.ac:20: installing 'build-aux/compile'
configure.ac:5: installing 'build-aux/config.guess'
configure.ac:5: installing 'build-aux/config.sub'
configure.ac:9: installing 'build-aux/install-sh'
configure.ac:9: installing 'build-aux/missing'
Makefile.am:3: error: Libtool library used but 'LIBTOOL' is undefined
Makefile.am:3:   The usual way to define 'LIBTOOL' is to add 'LT_INIT'
Makefile.am:3:   to 'configure.ac' and run 'aclocal' and 'autoconf' again.
Makefile.am:3:   If 'LT_INIT' is in 'configure.ac', make sure
Makefile.am:3:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
Makefile.am: installing 'build-aux/depcomp'
parallel-tests: installing 'build-aux/test-driver'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

I have tried running $ aclocal but unfortunately it does not fix the problem. Not a debian expert so not sure what I'm missing.

[jonasschnelli]

Is libtool installed?
sudo apt-get install libtool

[ChristopherA]

Yes, that was what was missing. Thanks!

BTW, do you have any example C code that demonstrates using libbtc anywhere?

[jonasschnelli]

There are no well documented examples.
The most educative parts are the tests (test/*.c) and the tools (src/tools/*.c) which are basically examples how to use libbtc.