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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-08-24 07:45:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-08-24 08:01:53 +0200 |
| commit | 00ada17230f7a76aba16bb60268f82f25dafcf3c (patch) | |
| tree | 9ca74f92ce483c62ec3f627ceebd1a679416a37a | |
| parent | 8858b6ddd3bce9daa08da6e05de3ca863a399c15 (diff) | |
| parent | fa14b6797088065f890b33c1a2c7f6ee4af20c6c (diff) | |
Merge #11119: [doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty works
fa14b67 [doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty works (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This should prevent people from running into the issues to later find that there is no solution yet.
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diff --git a/doc/build-windows.md b/doc/build-windows.md index 9549a4b9da..ca1a05dfb4 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 |