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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/util.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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diff --git a/src/util.cpp b/src/util.cpp
index 68bd18e..e4e314f 100644
--- a/src/util.cpp
+++ b/src/util.cpp
@@ -490,3 +490,15 @@ void AddTimeData(unsigned int ip, int64 nTime)
490 printf("| nTimeOffset = %+lld (%+lld minutes)\n", nTimeOffset, nTimeOffset/60); 490 printf("| nTimeOffset = %+lld (%+lld minutes)\n", nTimeOffset, nTimeOffset/60);
491 } 491 }
492} 492}
493
494// Formats a block or transaction timestamp for logs and for the wallet view.
495// It lived in gui.cpp, but main.cpp logs block times with it, so a headless
496// build needed it too -- and nothing about formatting a date is GUI work.
497string DateTimeStr(int64 nTime)
498{
499 time_t t = (time_t)nTime;
500 struct tm* p = localtime(&t);
501 if (!p) return "";
502 char buf[32]; strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%m/%d/%y %H:%M", p);
503 return buf;
504}