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diff --git a/doc/build-windows.md b/doc/build-windows.md index 12adadacdc..9641e0d3fd 100644 --- a/doc/build-windows.md +++ b/doc/build-windows.md @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ Below are some notes on how to build Bitcoin Core for Windows. The options known to work for building Bitcoin Core on Windows are: -* On Linux using the [Mingw-w64](https://mingw-w64.org/doku.php) cross compiler tool chain. Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 is required +* On Linux, using the [Mingw-w64](https://mingw-w64.org/doku.php) cross compiler tool chain. Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 is required and is the platform used to build the Bitcoin Core Windows release binaries. -* On Windows using [Windows +* On Windows, using [Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/about) and the Mingw-w64 cross compiler tool chain. Other options which may work, but which have not been extensively tested are (please contribute instructions): -* On Windows using a POSIX compatibility layer application such as [cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) or [msys2](http://www.msys2.org/). -* On Windows using a native compiler tool chain such as [Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com). +* On Windows, using a POSIX compatibility layer application such as [cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/) or [msys2](http://www.msys2.org/). +* On Windows, using a native compiler tool chain such as [Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com). Installing Windows Subsystem for Linux --------------------------------------- @@ -65,11 +65,15 @@ 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 -The first step is to install the mingw-w64 cross-compilation tool chain. +The first step is to install the mingw-w64 cross-compilation tool chain: sudo apt install g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 @@ -81,13 +85,13 @@ 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 located directly on the host Windows file system to perform the build. +This means you cannot use a directory that is located directly on the host Windows file system to perform the build. Acquire the source in the usual way: git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git -Once the source code is ready the build steps are below. +Once the source code is ready the build steps are below: PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e 's/:\/mnt.*//g') # strip out problematic Windows %PATH% imported var cd depends @@ -133,18 +137,22 @@ Installation ------------- After building using the Windows subsystem it can be useful to copy the compiled -executables to a directory on the windows drive in the same directory structure +executables to a directory on the Windows drive in the same directory structure as they appear in the release `.zip` archive. This can be done in the following 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 --------- -<a name="footnote1">1</a>: Starting from Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 both the 32 and 64 bit Mingw-w64 packages install two different +<a name="footnote1">1</a>: Starting from Ubuntu Xenial 16.04, both the 32 and 64 bit Mingw-w64 packages install two different compiler options to allow a choice between either posix or win32 threads. The default option is win32 threads which is the more efficient since it will result in binary code that links directly with the Windows kernel32.lib. Unfortunately, the headers -required to support win32 threads conflict with some of the classes in the C++11 standard library in particular std::mutex. +required to support win32 threads conflict with some of the classes in the C++11 standard library, in particular std::mutex. It's not possible to build the Bitcoin Core code using the win32 version of the Mingw-w64 cross compilers (at least not without modifying headers in the Bitcoin Core source code). |