Dependencies

These are the dependencies currently used by Bitcoin ABC. You can find instructions for installing them in the build-*.md file for your platform.

Dependency	Version used	Minimum required	CVEs	Shared	Bundled Qt library
Berkeley DB	5.3.28	5.3	No
Boost	1.81.0	1.64.0	No
Clang		5 (C++17 support)
CMake		3.16
fontconfig	2.12.6		No	Yes
FreeType	2.11.0		No
GCC		8.3
HarfBuzz-NG
jemalloc	5.2.1	3.6.0
libevent	2.1.12-stable	2.0.22	No
libnatpmp	commit 07004b9…		No
libpng					Yes
librsvg
MiniUPnPc	2.2.7	1.9	No
Ninja		1.5.1
OpenSSL	1.0.1k		Yes
PCRE					Yes
protobuf	21.12		No
Python (tests)		3.9
qrencode	3.4.4		No
Qt	5.15.5	5.9.5	No
SQLite	3.32.1	3.7.17
systemtap (tracing)
XCB					Yes (Linux only)
xkbcommon					Yes (Linux only)
ZeroMQ	4.3.1	4.1.5	No
zlib	1.2.11				No

Controlling dependencies

Some dependencies are not needed in all configurations. The following are some factors that affect the dependency list.

Options passed to cmake

• MiniUPnPc is not needed with -DENABLE_UPNP=OFF.
• MiniUPnPc is not needed with -DENABLE_NATPMP=OFF.
• Berkeley DB and SQLite are not needed with -DBUILD_BITCOIN_WALLET=OFF.
• OpenSSL is not needed with -DENABLE_BIP70=OFF.
• protobuf is not needed with -DENABLE_BIP70=OFF.
• Qt is not needed with -DBUILD_BITCOIN_QT=OFF.
• qrencode is not needed with -DENABLE_QRCODE=OFF.
• systemtap is not needed with -DENABLE_TRACING=OFF.
• ZeroMQ is not needed with the -DBUILD_BITCOIN_ZMQ=OFF.

Other

• librsvg is only needed if you need to run ninja osx-dmg on (cross-compilation to) macOS.