On a first run or after an upgrade, Windows release builds wrote the
bundled Sapling params, asmap, node and miner (about 88 MB) in
App::init, before the first frame: 0.5-3 s of frozen blank window, 5-30 s
on a slow disk or under antivirus. Zip, AppImage and .app builds copied
the bundled files into the daemon dir and hashed the 51.5 MB of params on
the UI thread at the first node start, a 0.3-1.5 s freeze in the wizard
or the connect loop.
A stat-only check at startup decides whether anything is missing, stale
or unverified; a normal launch starts no thread and shows nothing.
Otherwise one background job extracts (Windows) or copies (Linux, macOS)
the files, then verifies the params once:
- The first frame paints at once. If the job takes longer than 0.4 s, a
chip at the bottom shows "Preparing wallet files... N%", then
"Verifying wallet files...".
- A node start on the UI thread while the job runs is deferred and
replayed when it ends (never into a bootstrap download, a restart or a
live connection); worker threads wait, and give up on quit. After an
upgrade that ships a new miner, the node starts after the miner is
written instead of before. Pool-miner starts and the miner version
check wait too, so the old miner is never run or reported while it is
being replaced.
- Each file goes to "<name>.partial", is flushed and renamed into place
under one lock shared with the daemon start, the bundled-node
reinstall and the miner extraction, and the job stops between 4 MB
chunks at shutdown. An interrupted write used to leave a truncated
binary that was trusted forever; a leftover .partial is now removed.
Other behaviour changes:
- Linux and macOS full-node builds copy the bundled node files (about
77 MB) into the daemon dir at first launch, even if the wallet ends up
on an external node; before, this happened at the first embedded start.
- Lite no longer writes the 53 MB of params and asmap it never reads.
- A disk-full or permission failure that leaves the node files unusable
shows a warning; a miner blocked by antivirus alone does not.
- A corrupt or truncated param in a zip, AppImage or .app install is
replaced from the bundle and verified again instead of trusted forever.
- Reinstalling the bundled node holds off the connect loop and a deferred
start for its whole run (either could launch the old binary while the
new one was written), and is refused while another restart is running.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On Windows every full-node launch read the whole installed dragonxd.exe
(about 16.7 MB) on the UI thread and byte-scanned it for a version
string, to decide whether to offer the bundled node, which only needs
whether the file exists and its size. getInstalledDaemonInfo() takes a
scanVersion flag, and the update offer now only stats the file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dragonx-wallet-rebuild helper is the only thing that repairs a genuinely
BDB-inconsistent wallet.dat — plain "Restore" just re-triggers the daemon's
salvage cascade — yet it was silently dropped from every packaged build:
- Linux zip/AppImage copied a hand-picked file list that omitted it.
- Windows bundled it only behind a soft `[[ -f ]]` guard (silent skip).
- macOS never wired Berkeley DB, never built it, never bundled it.
build.sh now HARD-REQUIRES the helper for full-node releases (fails the build if
the vendored Berkeley DB depends are missing, rather than shipping recovery-less),
and ships it in the Linux zip + AppImage, the Windows zip, and the macOS .app.
It also compiles the helper standalone for Windows and INCBINs it, and
embedded_resources gains ensureWalletRebuildHelperExtracted() to extract it on
demand — so a self-contained ObsidianDragon.exe carries recovery exactly like the
embedded daemon, even on a machine where first-run param extraction already ran.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously the wallet re-extracted the bundled dragonxd on startup whenever the
installed binary's size differed from the bundle ("stale" overwrite), which could
replace a node a user had deliberately placed in dragonx/.
Now dragonx binaries (dragonxd/cli/tx) are auto-placed ONLY when missing — never
auto-overwritten on a size mismatch (needsParamsExtraction + extractEmbeddedResources).
Params/asmap keep their size-based refresh; a daemon dropped next to the wallet exe
still takes priority and is never touched.
Replacing the daemon is now an explicit action: Settings → "Daemon binary" reports the
installed binary's version (scanned from the file), size and modified date, compares it
to the version bundled in this build, and offers an "Install bundled daemon" button.
That stops the node, overwrites dragonxd/cli/tx with the bundled copies (waiting for the
process to release the file lock), and restarts — wallet/keys/chain data untouched.
Adds resources::{getInstalledDaemonInfo,getBundledDaemonInfo,reextractBundledDaemon}
(+ a version-string scanner) and App::reinstallBundledDaemon().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a newer wallet build embeds a newer daemon, extractEmbeddedResources()
detects the size change and tries to overwrite dragonxd.exe in the daemon dir —
but the write is a plain truncating ofstream, which fails silently if the file
is locked. A running (or just-killed, handle-not-yet-released) daemon locks the
.exe on Windows (and Linux returns ETXTBSY), so the stale binary was kept and
the wallet kept launching the old daemon version.
If the direct write fails, move the stale binary aside to "<name>.old" (renaming
a running/locked executable is permitted on both Windows and Linux — the running
process keeps the moved copy) and write the fresh one at the original path. A
best-effort pass removes leftover .old files once the old process has exited.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Full-node GUI wallet for DragonX cryptocurrency.
Built with Dear ImGui, SDL3, and OpenGL3/DX11.
Features:
- Send/receive shielded and transparent transactions
- Autoshield with merged transaction display
- Built-in CPU mining (xmrig)
- Peer management and network monitoring
- Wallet encryption with PIN lock
- QR code generation for receive addresses
- Transaction history with pagination
- Console for direct RPC commands
- Cross-platform (Linux, Windows)
DanSandClaude Opus 5.5