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diff --git a/doc/build-windows.md b/doc/build-windows.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2b9233d1e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/build-windows.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +WINDOWS BUILD NOTES +==================== + +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. + +Building on Windows itself is possible (for example using msys / mingw-w64), +but no one documented the steps to do this. If you are doing this, please contribute them. + +Cross-compilation +------------------- + +These steps can be performed on, for example, an Ubuntu VM. The depends system +will also work on other Linux distributions, however the commands for +installing the toolchain will be different. + +First install the toolchains: + + sudo apt-get install g++-mingw-w64-i686 mingw-w64-i686-dev g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 mingw-w64-x86-64-dev + +To build executables for Windows 32-bit: + + cd depends + make HOST=i686-w64-mingw32 -j4 + cd .. + ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/depends/i686-w64-mingw32 + make + +To build executables for Windows 64-bit: + + cd depends + make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 -j4 + cd .. + ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32 + make + +For further documentation on the depends system see [README.md](../depends/README.md) in the depends directory. + |