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I'd like to use the bitcoin client to examine some of the inner workings of bitcoin-qt (non-invasively, using gets and lists mostly). Is it possible to do this alongside the standard executable? I don't really want to download and build everything from source.
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Yes. Go to Bitcoin-Qt -> Help -> Debug Window.
Help -> Command Line Options gives a list of all options.
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TL;DR: Yes, "make ./src/bitcoin-cli".
The full procedure (with bitcoin-0.11.0, you may want to download a newer version if any):
cd ~/
wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.11.0/bitcoin-0.11.0.tar.gz
sha256sum bitcoin-0.11.0.tar.gz | grep 51ba1756addfa71567559e3f22331c1d908a63571891287689fff7113035d09f
tar xfz bitcoin-0.11.0.tar.gz
cd bitcoin-0.11.0
./configure --enable-hardening --disable-wallet --disable-upnp-default --without-miniupnpc
make ./src/bitcoin-cli
Check that everything is fine:
./src/bitcoin-cli --help
This answer seems to miss the point as the asker states he does not want to build from the source. – Murch – 2015-07-17T11:16:00.743
I don't understand what you're asking.
bitcoin-cliis distributed alongsidebitcoin-qt. What do you mean by examing Bitcoin using gets and lists? – Nick ODell – 2014-12-15T06:08:44.983I'm running bitcoin core but I haven't built it, just dowloaded the executable. I want to use bitcoin-cli to send commands such as getinfo, listtransactions, getbalance, etc. Possibly I can do that through bitcoin core's UI. Currently I'm waiting for it to start up on my system. – darren – 2014-12-15T06:28:44.807
This is a bit difficult with the bitcoin-cli but check out some libraries like this which constructs transactions and signs them or toshi which was put out by coinbase and offers a lot more customization.
– Loourr – 2014-12-15T17:44:24.417