Upgrade existing coin with Monero Generator

[nidscom]

Hi. Is it possible to do this? I have cryptonote coin that i would like to improve the code. RingCT would be awesome.

[pmitchev]

Yes. The work on this will be resumed soon.

PS are you having a bytecoin clone?

[nidscom]

Yes i forked from Cryptonotefoundation repo. But having problem with json rpc.

[RocksteadyTC]

We are a bytecoin clone, TurtleCoin. What do you have in mind @pmitchev

[pmitchev]

@RocksteadyTC The big goal of the project is to make all Forknote coins work on both Bytecoin and Monero cores. The start for the project is to get Dashcoin working on Monero core, since it's the simplest case. I got stuck at syncing V2 blocks, since bytecoin has some change in the block template. If you are willing to help this will be huge for small Cryptonote coins.

[RocksteadyTC]

@pmitchev I'd like to float this idea by our development team if you don't mind. This is a very promising opportunity in my opinion. They may feel differently, but I think they'd agree.

[Dreadmon]

@RocksteadyTC @pmitchev I would like to get involved with the C++ coding.

[pmitchev]

@Dreadmon Hi,
The current status of this project: not able to sync after blocks with major version 2. As mentioned, the goals is to make it running for Dashcoin. From there, it's a simple config change to make it run to all others.

The work done so far is here:
https://github.com/forknote/monero-generator/blob/master/extensions/bytecoin-clone.json

This section here is certainly flawed:
https://github.com/forknote/monero-generator/blob/master/extensions/bytecoin-clone.json#L233-L460

To generate the output source code:
bash generator.sh -j configs/dashcoin.json

Milestones:

1. Able to sync (Dashcoin)
2. Able to mine (Dashcoin)
3. Adding tests

[Dreadmon]

@Dreadmon @RocksteadyTC Thanks! I will get started on this.

[Dreadmon]

@pmitchev When I run the generator for dashcoin, I am getting this compilation below.

Do you want me to fix this? Or, I am missing something?
Specifically: undefined reference to `rl_filename_completion_function'

/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/cmTC_f4f76.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/usr/bin/cc -fno-strict-aliasing -maes -std=c11 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Wvla -Wwrite-strings -Wno-error=extra -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-error=unused-variable -Wno-error=undef -Wno-error=uninitialized -Wlogical-op -Wno-error=maybe-uninitialized -Wno-error=cpp -Waggregate-return -Wnested-externs -Wold-style-definition -Wstrict-prototypes -march=x86-64 -fPIC -Wformat -Wformat-security -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-strong -fno-strict-aliasing -DCHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS=rl_filename_completion_function -rdynamic CMakeFiles/cmTC_f4f76.dir/CheckFunctionExists.c.o -o cmTC_f4f76
CMakeFiles/cmTC_f4f76.dir/CheckFunctionExists.c.o: In function main': CheckFunctionExists.c:(.text+0x10): undefined reference to rl_filename_completion_function'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
CMakeFiles/cmTC_f4f76.dir/build.make:97: recipe for target 'cmTC_f4f76' failed
make[2]: *** [cmTC_f4f76] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/scotty/forknote/monero-generator/generated_files/dashcoin.monero/build/release/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
Makefile:126: recipe for target 'cmTC_f4f76/fast' failed
make[1]: *** [cmTC_f4f76/fast] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/scotty/forknote/monero-generator/generated_files/dashcoin.monero/build/release/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'

[RocksteadyTC]

@Dreadmon This might need a new issue