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| author | fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com> | 2024-10-16 14:30:55 +0100 |
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| committer | fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com> | 2024-10-16 14:47:11 +0100 |
| commit | 184f12c1542f6c53eb2bd9dfb08dfdd490e38846 (patch) | |
| tree | 0edc46b9ae14f18c40bfd1d047f15934e1759e71 | |
| parent | 2123c94448ed142e78942421c597a1f264859c48 (diff) | |
doc: remove dependency install instructions from win docs
This duplicates what is in depends, and is outdated.
| -rw-r--r-- | depends/README.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/build-windows.md | 24 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/depends/README.md b/depends/README.md index 9800b04194..4ef7247ea4 100644 --- a/depends/README.md +++ b/depends/README.md @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ For more information, see [SDK Extraction](../contrib/macdeploy/README.md#sdk-ex #### For Win64 cross compilation -- see [build-windows.md](../doc/build-windows.md#cross-compilation-for-ubuntu-and-windows-subsystem-for-linux) + apt install g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix #### For linux (including i386, ARM) cross compilation diff --git a/doc/build-windows.md b/doc/build-windows.md index 2e7b93da35..0c1418bff9 100644 --- a/doc/build-windows.md +++ b/doc/build-windows.md @@ -28,36 +28,18 @@ The steps below can be performed on Ubuntu or WSL. The depends system will also work on other Linux distributions, however the commands for installing the toolchain will be different. -First, install the general dependencies: - - sudo apt update - sudo apt upgrade - sudo apt install cmake curl g++ git make pkg-config - -A host toolchain (`g++`) is necessary because some dependency -packages need to build host utilities that are used in the build process. - -See [dependencies.md](dependencies.md) for a complete overview. +See [README.md](../depends/README.md) in the depends directory for which +dependencies to install and [dependencies.md](dependencies.md) for a complete overview. If you want to build the Windows installer using the `deploy` build target, you will need [NSIS](https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page): - sudo apt install nsis + apt install nsis Acquire the source in the usual way: git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git cd bitcoin -## Building for 64-bit Windows - -The first step is to install the mingw-w64 cross-compilation toolchain: - -```sh -sudo apt install g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix -``` - -Once the toolchain is installed the build steps are common: - Note that for WSL the Bitcoin Core source path MUST be somewhere in the default mount file system, for example /usr/src/bitcoin, AND not under /mnt/d/. If this is not the case the dependency autoconf scripts will fail. This means you cannot use a directory that is located directly on the host Windows file system to perform the build. |