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@@ -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