Bitcoin v0.2.0 BETA Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/). This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). WINDOWS BUILD NOTES =================== Compilers Supported ------------------- MinGW GCC (recommended) MSVC 6.0 SP6: You'll need Boost version 1.34 because they dropped support for MSVC 6.0 after that. However, they didn't add Asio until 1.35. You should still be able to build with MSVC 6.0 by adding Asio to 1.34 by unpacking boost_asio_*.zip into the boost directory: http://sourceforge.net/projects/asio/files/asio MSVC 8.0 (2005) SP1 has been tested. Note: MSVC 7.0 and up have a habit of linking to runtime DLLs that are not installed on XP by default. Dependencies ------------ Libraries you need to download separately and build: default path download wxWidgets-2.9 \wxwidgets http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/ OpenSSL \openssl http://www.openssl.org/source/ Berkeley DB \db http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html Boost \boost http://www.boost.org/users/download/ Their licenses: wxWidgets LGPL 2.1 with very liberal exceptions OpenSSL Old BSD license with the problematic advertising requirement Berkeley DB New BSD license with additional requirement that linked software must be free open source Boost MIT-like license Versions used in this release: MinGW GCC 3.4.5 wxWidgets 2.9.0 OpenSSL 0.9.8k Berkeley DB 4.7.25.NC Boost 1.42.1 Notes ----- The UI layout is edited with wxFormBuilder. The project file is uiproject.fbp. It generates uibase.cpp and uibase.h, which define base classes that do the rote work of constructing all the UI elements. The release is built with GCC and then "strip bitcoin.exe" to strip the debug symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%. wxWidgets --------- cd \wxwidgets\build\msw make -f makefile.gcc or nmake -f makefile.vc OpenSSL ------- Bitcoin does not use any encryption. If you want to do a no-everything build of OpenSSL to exclude encryption routines, a few patches are required. (instructions for OpenSSL v0.9.8k) Edit engines\e_gmp.c and engines\e_capi.c and add this #ifndef around the openssl/rsa.h include: #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_RSA #include #endif Edit ms\mingw32.bat and replace the Configure line's parameters with this no-everything list. You have to put this in the batch file because batch files can't take more than nine command line parameters. perl Configure mingw threads no-rc2 no-rc4 no-rc5 no-idea no-des no-bf no-cast no-aes no-camellia no-seed no-rsa no-dh Also REM out the following line in ms\mingw32.bat after the mingw32-make line. The build fails after it's already finished building libeay32, which is all we care about, but the failure aborts the script before it runs dllwrap to generate libeay32.dll. REM if errorlevel 1 goto end Build cd \openssl ms\mingw32.bat If you want to use it with MSVC, generate the .lib file lib /machine:i386 /def:ms\libeay32.def /out:out\libeay32.lib Berkeley DB ----------- Using MinGW and MSYS: cd \db\build_unix sh ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx make Boost ----- download bjam.exe from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=72941 cd \boost bjam toolset=gcc --build-type=complete stage or bjam toolset=msvc --build-type=complete stage