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authorBitflash <btf01@proton.me>2026-07-29 16:33:02 -0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2026-07-29 16:33:02 -0300
commitc404e1c7f5d3f04d07e7e5b35a7a8ffcc998d855 (patch)
tree314935e341d2e6fe0d6cd927e01efbb87b74df36 /src/headless.cpp
parentab24958f1470cb62a4637126345fdf14c2ec0bd4 (diff)
build: headless Linux node that does not need libGL (#37)
The GUI build requires libGL at load time even when started with -nogui. The dynamic loader resolves every dependency before main() runs, so the flag arrives far too late -- on a clean server the binary dies with error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file and nothing suggests it would otherwise have worked. A server is where a node most naturally lives, so this is the deployment that mattered most and the one that failed. The AppImage additionally needs FUSE, which minimal servers lack. Bundling libGL into the AppImage would be the wrong fix: GL has to come from the host's driver stack, and shipping our own breaks machines that have a real GPU. So: a second binary, built from the same node objects without ImGui, GLFW or OpenGL. `make linux-node` produces bitflash-node-<version>-x86_64, 2.5 MB stripped, with no graphics or FUSE dependency at all. `make linux` now builds it alongside the AppImage. Anyone wanting a window keeps using the AppImage. Two small moves were needed. MainFrameRepaint is called from main.cpp and net.cpp but defined in gui.cpp, so headless.cpp provides an empty one rather than putting ifdefs at six call sites. DateTimeStr also lived in gui.cpp while main.cpp logs block times with it -- nothing about formatting a date is GUI work, so it moved to util.cpp and both builds share one definition. Verified on Debian 13: ldd bitflash-node | grep -iE 'libGL|glfw|X11' -> nothing ldd bitflash | grep -iE 'libGL|glfw' -> libglfw.so.3, libGL.so.1, libGLdispatch.so.0 and at runtime, from an empty datadir: btfseed: reached ygffz37...btf via 90.156.222.107:8434 rendezvous: registered at 90.156.222.107:8434, waiting for a dial self-resolve OK (meeting_node=90.156.222.107:8434) btfpeers: kept 15 of 15 descriptor(s) first block at ~30s, 3182 blocks accepted, synced to the tip The GUI builds on Linux and Windows were rebuilt and are unaffected.
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1// Copyright (c) 2026 Bitflash developers
2// Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license.
3//
4// Stand-ins for the handful of symbols the node core expects the GUI to
5// provide, so a headless binary can be linked without ImGui, GLFW or OpenGL.
6//
7// This exists because linking the GUI made the node need libGL at load time
8// even when started with -nogui: the dynamic loader resolves everything before
9// main() runs, so the flag came far too late. On a clean server -- which is
10// where a node most naturally lives -- that is a hard failure with an error
11// message about shared libraries and no hint that the program would otherwise
12// have worked fine.
13
14#include "headers_core.h"
15
16// The GUI uses this to mark itself dirty. With no window to repaint there is
17// nothing to do, and the call sites in main.cpp and net.cpp stay unchanged.
18void MainFrameRepaint()
19{
20}