From 0a6af47ffabbeee29fec5b5d71eaff43a08969da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MarcoFalke Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:10:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty works Github-Pull: #11119 Rebased-From: fa14b6797088065f890b33c1a2c7f6ee4af20c6c Tree-SHA512: a790a5d37a06a691f2536763a504ead5b06b94708ba07f3b94bedbb76b0201825be3dcd95343512d7a6211089be2abc3f1e0957ed27055426e6943d4bdb6fbd9 --- doc/build-windows.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/build-windows.md b/doc/build-windows.md index 9549a4b9d..ca1a05dfb 100644 --- a/doc/build-windows.md +++ b/doc/build-windows.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Below are some notes on how to build Bitcoin Core for Windows. Most developers use cross-compilation from Ubuntu to build executables for Windows. This is also used to build the release binaries. +Currently only building on Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 is supported. +Other versions are unsupported or known to be broken (e.g. Ubuntu Xenial 16.04). + While there are potentially a number of ways to build on Windows (for example using msys / mingw-w64), using the Windows Subsystem For Linux is the most straightforward. If you are building with another method, please contribute the instructions here for others who are running versions