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Below are some notes on how to build Bitcoin Core for Windows. |
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Below are some notes on how to build Bitcoin Core for Windows. |
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Most developers use cross-compilation from Ubuntu to build executables for |
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Most developers use cross-compilation from Ubuntu to build executables for |
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Windows. This is also used to build the release binaries. |
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Windows. Cross-compilation is also used to build the release binaries. |
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Currently only building on Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 is supported. |
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Currently only building on Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 or Ubuntu Zesty 17.04 or later is supported. |
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Other versions are unsupported or known to be broken (e.g. Ubuntu Xenial 16.04). |
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Building on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 is known to be broken, see extensive discussion in issue [8732](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8732). |
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While it may be possible to do so with work arounds, it's potentially dangerous and not recommended. |
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While there are potentially a number of ways to build on Windows (for example using msys / mingw-w64), |
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While there are potentially a number of ways to build on Windows (for example using msys / mingw-w64), |
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using the Windows Subsystem For Linux is the most straightforward. If you are building with |
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using the Windows Subsystem For Linux is the most straightforward. If you are building with |
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See also: [dependencies.md](dependencies.md). |
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See also: [dependencies.md](dependencies.md). |
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If you're building on Ubuntu 17.04 or later, run these two commands, selecting the 'posix' variant for both, |
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to work around issues with mingw-w64. See issue [8732](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/8732) for more information. |
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sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ |
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sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc |
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``` |
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## Building for 64-bit Windows |
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## Building for 64-bit Windows |
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To build executables for Windows 64-bit, install the following dependencies: |
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To build executables for Windows 64-bit, install the following dependencies: |
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