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authorMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2018-12-18 12:30:02 -0500
committerMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2018-12-18 12:30:04 -0500
commitb545a7e33775bbb1065b1e2a3971ce005e633da4 (patch)
treed8b19f5f79a2b0a680b642ef36fbb965c61345d9
parente7b88ecbc920321290941bc68e4a71634889c3cb (diff)
parent82687b5034921b7906915bd0a33e84abb5825fb2 (diff)
Merge #14950: docs: add NSIS setup/install steps to windows docs
82687b5034 docs: add NSIS setup/install steps to windows docs (luciana) Pull request description: Supersedes #14744 Fixes: #14699 Rearranged the changes in #14744 to be more similar to the macOS docs. Tree-SHA512: d68f952eee1a97702d23a02e4f35b66dedd3bf104b8ea05de9a642a596c476c40aa76fae5b00a1600b3758e25621226d89216885ec8f52acf89d6eb117421f9e
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@@ -65,7 +65,11 @@ A host toolchain (`build-essential`) is necessary because some dependency
packages (such as `protobuf`) need to build host utilities that are used in the
build process.
-See also: [dependencies.md](dependencies.md).
+See [dependencies.md](dependencies.md) for a complete overview.
+
+If you want to build the windows installer with `make deploy` you need [NSIS](https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page):
+
+ sudo apt install nsis
## Building for 64-bit Windows
@@ -139,6 +143,10 @@ way. This will install to `c:\workspace\bitcoin`, for example:
make install DESTDIR=/mnt/c/workspace/bitcoin
+You can also create an installer using:
+
+ make deploy
+
Footnotes
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