Having recently taken on the continued development of the Givecoin chain I have a new found sympathy for any blockchain developer  

The code bases are incredibly fragile and there are a ton of dependencies that suck the fun out of it.  Chief among them is the BOOST library.

It's taken me about three solid days to get Litecoin & Givecoin to just compile and link cleanly on Mac OS X 10.9 "Mavericks"  in a bid to get a pure 64-bit app -- only to have them blow up right away with Seg Fault 11's -- so it means firing up the debugger to find out which component has slid off the rails.

On the plus side I now have the X11 suite compiling cleanly ;-)

I'm seriously considering paying a bounty to someone(s) to remove the BOOST dependency all together just to cut down on the number of moving parts (there are only a few "convenience" objects used and it was a real bitch to get it build under FreeBSD a couple of years ago when I did a port of Bitcoind.



David V Duccini
Executive Director
doabitofgood.com