[Complete] Testing Feathercoin - 0.8.5.0 \* Released

lizhi

Feathercoin client 0.8.5 running successfully. Compiled on Windows 7.0 SP1 32bit.
Sync: Correct
Send: Correct
Received: Correct
New address: works
New sending address: works
Backup Wallet: works
User interface language : works
Chinese display: Correct

I think it can be released . ;)

wrapper

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Feathercoin client 0.8.5 running successfully. Compiled on Windows 7.0 SP1 32bit.

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Did you compile that to Windows? Did you manage to switch QR codes on?

Wellenreiter

QR-code enabled and working :)

Pull request is on Github.

I had some difficulties to get the fork and pull done.
was my first time to fork something on github and I hope, that I didn’t damage anything.

Regarding functionality:

I created a QR code for payment on my PC and scanned the code with my tablet.
Worked absolutely fine. The Wallet on the tablet recognized the receiving address as well as the amount of FTC to be sent.

wrapper

Just noticed when testing the right click in “receive coins”, for QR codes.

When you mouse over (Linux Compile) it says “double click to edit address or label”. But double click doesn’t do anything. Same in 0.6.4.4. client. Same in Litecoin 0.8.5.1

Bushstar

Morning everyone. Considering that this release generally seems to be stable I have made the repo public so people can test without the need for explicit permissions. This was only to safeguard someone from putting this into a production environment.

wrapper

Just reporting the results of my first software hack. As Wellenreiters patch didn’t work for my 13.10 Linux compile. I tried setting the if statement to what looks more logical to me.

That didn’t work either, tho’. QRs must be windows only.

addressbookpage.cpp

#ifndef USE_QRCODE
ui->showQRCode->setVisible(true);
#else
ui->showQRCode->setVisible(false);
#endif

Wellenreiter

It’s working fine for me and I’m on Opensuse linux.

The problem was, that at least the button opening the QR-code window was set to ‘invisible’ in the initialisation of the Adressbook, or undefined, what also leads to ‘invisible’.

it may be, that there are other ways to open the QR-code window, I don’t know about.

If someone could tell me which ways are normally possible to get the QR-code i can check for further bugs in the code.

See attached screenshot of my wallet. My Wallet is in German, sorry, but I think you’ll get it ;)

[attachment deleted by admin]

wrapper

Hi Wellenreiter - cheers for that up date on getting QR codes working in Ubuntu compile. I’m still looking into that as well, the qmake etc seem ok.

I’m just doing some testing of updating an 0.6.4.4 Database to the new version - here’s how I did it - if anyone wants to try the beta version 0.8.5.0, without disturbing their wallet. I think its in %appdata% for windows.

Re-indexing Test upgrade at the moment.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

For Linux clients in Home directory - Alt Dot

copy .feathercoin to a Samba share Directory
Click on Share directory, Alt Dot.
change .feathercoin to feathercoin
edit Properties / permissions on feathercoin copy

In VBox Kubuntu - Install samba - Network - Samba shares - Add to -laces (for Dol-phin)
copy feathercoin into virtual box Kubuntu
rename it .feathercoin.

Install and compile 0.8.5.0

Test database upgrade

wrapper

Testing Upgrading.

That was a bit weird, I thought I should be OK. But forgot to send out the coins I sent to the test version, before trying to update the old wallet.

When I copied in the old .feathercoin directory from my wallet, and started up the 0.8.5.0 client it somehow remembered the coins I’d been sent to the (deleted) wallet and the link between the address database failed and all the old amounts were against the wrong labels.

I’m not sure where (0.8.5.0) remembered this from, I assume it must be storing a private key somewhere else, and that referenced the coins in the Blockchain? They didn’t match the addresses in the updated client, so they went out of step.

Shows the need for an backup - import facility. And that updates must be to a clean database.

I’ll try again, now I’ve sent the coins out. I’ll recompile the client as well as replace .feathercoin with my copy from 0.6.4.4. if that don’t work.

lizhi

Hi wrapper0feather,

I compily your 0.8.5, it neesd qrencode-3.4.3,so I compily qrencode-3.4.3,but I encounter a problem.

configure:12615: error: in `/c/qrencode-3.4.3’:
configure:12617: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it
is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
path to pkg-config.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables png_CFLAGS
and png_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

How to install pkg-config on MinGW 4.6.2 ? Thank your help.

wrapper

I got the QR codes working, for the linux compile from Github, but installed a lot of QR related programs to do it. I went through them all, one by one to find which one made it work. These appears to be the missing dependencies. I added them to the Linux compile guide / walkthrough.

qmake USE_QRCODE=1

sudo apt-get install qrencode
sudo apt-get install libqrencode-dev

Wellenreiter

They where missing, because qr-code was disabled, I think.

libqrencode is needed to run the wallet
libqrencode-dev is needed to compile the wallet

Good that you finally got it compiled :)

Gratulations! :)

I hope that my packaging will be a success soon, too.

Will enable packages for OpenSuse today
Debian 7.0 package also looks good, but needs to be tested and hopefully will be published in the next days
XUbunutu 13.10 is in the same state.
Other Linux Distros no luck so far and I will not package them until a high demand shows up.

It can be a pain in the a*** whne you have to learn all the different ways to create a package for the diferent Linux distros ;)

wrapper

I was suggesting we look into Docker, to get a cross distro version out soonist.

It includes all the dependencies in one container. I’m still messing with testing, so I haven’t got round to that yet, it looks promising tho’.

ghostlander

[url=https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/commit/dc5b50fe718f0d4c6f2d533662c66442ffd029ec]Fix LevelDB 197 on OS X[/url]

Bushstar

[quote name=“ghostlander” post=“38569” timestamp=“1385954925”]
[url=https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/commit/dc5b50fe718f0d4c6f2d533662c66442ffd029ec]Fix LevelDB 197 on OS X[/url]
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That’s pretty good timing. I’m compiling the Mac 0.8.5 client now :)

Wellenreiter

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I was suggesting we look into Docker, to get a cross distro version out soonist.

It includes all the dependencies in one container. I’m still messing with testing, so I haven’t got round to that yet, it looks promising tho’.
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I’m using Opensuse build service at the moment.

It’s a flexible environment that let’s you create packages for all major Linux distributions.

Unfortunately there are some differences between die different distros, so that you have to adapt the dependencies or even compile some libraries directly as parto a project.

Yesterday I manged to link my OBS (OpenSuseBuildservice) to the Githug repository of feathercoin-0.8.5.0, so that the latest files are automatically downloaded, when I trigger a package creations in OBS. :)

I’ll be ready to provide Opensuse and probably Debian7 packages of 0.8.5 today or tomorrow.

I’ll keep you updated.

If you want to check out OBS: https://build.opensuse.org/

It can be used to create packages for:

Opensuse and Suse
redhat (problems: EC_KEY not defined, there is a ECKS package missing in redhat distro due to license problems
mandriva (Didn’t try that)
Fedora_18 (Didn’t try that)
Debian 7 (success for the 6.4.4 version, working on 0.8.5)
xUbuntu 12.04/12.1 (missing libraries in the distro)
xUbuntu 13.04/13.1 (compile script works, packaging is in progress, but it will take some time)

wrapper

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xUbuntu 12.04/12.1 (missing libraries in the distro)
xUbuntu 13.04/13.1 (compile script works, packaging is in progress, but it will take some time)
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Brilliant work Wellenreiter, I don’t want to interrupt that, but if you can help easily …

I have tried various libraries, for the 0.6.4.4 “fails to build 13.04 - 32 bit” problem, should we just leave that?
Or would it be possible to try an opensuse 32bit build, might give us further info what’s up / missing?

Can you let me know what the Missing libraries are for 12.04 Distribution , I tried everything that might be the problem compiling on 12.04.

I’ll try the 0.8.5.0 to see if that will compile on 13.04 - 32 bit, today.

Wellenreiter

I had a working 32bit version for opensuse 12.2 on the OBS, and there is another guy (p_conrad) who has an active 32bit package for opensuse available.

see: [url=http://software.opensuse.org/package/feathercoin]http://software.opensuse.org/package/feathercoin[/url]

You need to click on ‘show unstable packages’ as all packages not fully supported by OpenSuse are tagged as ‘unstable’

Here is a copy of the email I sent to OBS support, basically they answered ‘no universe libraries will be added to OBS. you need to compile these as part of your project’

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Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

when I try to build my project for xUbuntu 12.10 or 12.04 I get the
following error messages:

unresolvable: nothing provides libboost-system-dev, nothing provides
libboost-filesystem-dev, nothing provides libboost-thread-dev

As the build for xUbuntu 13.10 and 13.04 are working fine, I think, that
the libraries are missing in the build environment for the 12.x
versions.

Can those libraries added?

With kind regards

Wellenreiter

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wrapper

I am not able to compile Litecoin 0.8 on 32 bit Linux. Qt 5 widget incompatibility raises error class QHeaderView has no member named ‘setClickable’

HOWEVER, the latest Feathercoin 0.8.5-beta compiles and runs on 32 bit 13.04, so it possibly, solved that 0.6.4.4. not compiling problem for us. Assuming I didn’t load a needed dependency when trying to compile 0.6.4.4 first of all.

Wellenreiter

Just found a little problem

In Version 0.8.5.0-rc1 the QR-code window has no handle to close it again, and it stays open until the application is closed.

The function is: receive coins-> select address-> show qr-code

As we are coming close to a release and need to organize our work, I submitted an issue in github, so one can assign himself to the problem and we avoid double work.

Is that ok for all?

Best regards

Wellenreiter