2.3 KiB
Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers
Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com), and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard.
See readme-qt.rst for instructions on building Bitcoin-Qt, the graphical user interface.
WINDOWS BUILD NOTES
Compilers Supported
TODO: What works? Note: releases are cross-compiled using mingw running on Linux.
Dependencies
Libraries you need to download separately and build:
default path download
OpenSSL \openssl-1.0.1c-mgw http://www.openssl.org/source/ Berkeley DB \db-4.8.30.NC-mgw http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html Boost \boost-1.50.0-mgw http://www.boost.org/users/download/ miniupnpc \miniupnpc-1.6-mgw http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/files/
Their licenses:
OpenSSL Old BSD license with the problematic advertising requirement
Berkeley DB New BSD license with additional requirement that linked software must be free open source
Boost MIT-like license
miniupnpc New (3-clause) BSD license
Versions used in this release:
OpenSSL 1.0.1c
Berkeley DB 4.8.30.NC
Boost 1.50.0
miniupnpc 1.6
OpenSSL
MSYS shell:
un-tar sources with MSYS 'tar xfz' to avoid issue with symlinks (OpenSSL ticket 2377) change 'MAKE' env. variable from 'C:\MinGW32\bin\mingw32-make.exe' to '/c/MinGW32/bin/mingw32-make.exe'
cd /c/openssl-1.0.1c-mgw
./config
make
Berkeley DB
MSYS shell:
cd /c/db-4.8.30.NC-mgw/build_unix
sh ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx
make
Boost
DOS prompt:
downloaded boost jam 3.1.18
cd \boost-1.50.0-mgw
bjam toolset=gcc --build-type=complete stage
MiniUPnPc
UPnP support is optional, make with USE_UPNP=
to disable it.
MSYS shell:
cd /c/miniupnpc-1.6-mgw
make -f Makefile.mingw
mkdir miniupnpc
cp *.h miniupnpc/
Bitcoin
DOS prompt:
cd \bitcoin\src
mingw32-make -f makefile.mingw
strip bitcoind.exe