Autotools to CMake Options Mapping

Autotools to CMake Options Mapping

The Bitcoin Core build system has been migrated from Autotools to CMake in v29.0.

The CMake variables have fixed default values and are not auto-detected at runtime. Any CMake build that requires values different from the defaults must explicitly set them. CMake will print a configure summary, which can be used to verify the build configuration.

Below is a mapping from Autotools configure script options (as for v28.1) to the corresponding CMake variables (for v29.0):

Autotools configure option *	CMake variable name	CMake variable default value
--prefix	CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
--enable-shared	BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
--enable-static	BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF or skip it
--disable-wallet	ENABLE_WALLET	ON
--enable-usdt	WITH_USDT	OFF
--disable-tests	BUILD_TESTS	ON
--disable-gui-tests	BUILD_GUI_TESTS	${BUILD_GUI} & ${BUILD_TESTS}
--disable-bench	BUILD_BENCH	OFF
--enable-fuzz	BUILD_FOR_FUZZING	OFF
--enable-fuzz-binary	BUILD_FUZZ_BINARY	OFF
--disable-hardening	ENABLE_HARDENING	ON
--enable-reduce-exports	REDUCE_EXPORTS	OFF
--disable-ccache	WITH_CCACHE	ON
--enable-suppress-external-warnings	External warnings are suppressed out-of-the-box
--enable-lcov	CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Coverage
--disable-zmq	WITH_ZMQ	OFF
--enable-multiprocess	WITH_MULTIPROCESS	OFF
--disable-man	INSTALL_MAN	ON
--enable-debug	CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug	RelWithDebInfo
--enable-werror	WERROR	OFF
--enable-external-signer	ENABLE_EXTERNAL_SIGNER	ON
--enable-util-cli	BUILD_CLI	ON
--enable-util-tx	BUILD_TX	${BUILD_TESTS}
--enable-util-wallet	BUILD_WALLET_TOOL	${BUILD_TESTS} & ${ENABLE_WALLET}
--enable-util-util	BUILD_UTIL	${BUILD_TESTS}
--enable-experimental-util-chainstate	BUILD_UTIL_CHAINSTATE	OFF
--with-sqlite	WITH_SQLITE	${ENABLE_WALLET}
--without-bdb	WITH_BDB	OFF
--with-natpmp	WITH_NATPMP	OFF
--with-qrencode	WITH_QRENCODE	${BUILD_GUI}
--with-libmultiprocess	Libmultiprocess_DIR	< empty >
--with-mpgen	LibmultiprocessGen_DIR	< empty >
--with-sanitizers	SANITIZERS	< empty >
--with-utils	Not implemented. Use individual BUILD_* variables
--with-experimental-kernel-lib	BUILD_KERNEL_LIB	${BUILD_UTIL_CHAINSTATE}
--with-daemon	BUILD_DAEMON	ON
--with-gui	BUILD_GUI	OFF
--with-qtdbus	WITH_DBUS	${BUILD_GUI}
--with-incompatible-bdb	WARN_INCOMPATIBLE_BDB	ON
--with-boost	Boost_INCLUDE_DIR	< empty >

* - Listed as in the ./configure --help output.