1 Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
2 Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
3 file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
4 This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in
5 the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/). This product includes
6 cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
14 MinGW GCC (recommended)
16 MSVC 6.0 SP6: You'll need Boost version 1.34 because they dropped support
17 for MSVC 6.0 after that. However, they didn't add Asio until 1.35.
18 You should still be able to build with MSVC 6.0 by adding Asio to 1.34 by
19 unpacking boost_asio_*.zip into the boost directory:
20 http://sourceforge.net/projects/asio/files/asio
22 MSVC 8.0 (2005) SP1 has been tested. Note: MSVC 7.0 and up have a habit of
23 linking to runtime DLLs that are not installed on XP by default.
28 Libraries you need to download separately and build:
31 wxWidgets-2.9 \wxwidgets http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/
32 OpenSSL \openssl http://www.openssl.org/source/
33 Berkeley DB \db http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html
34 Boost \boost http://www.boost.org/users/download/
37 wxWidgets LGPL 2.1 with very liberal exceptions
38 OpenSSL Old BSD license with the problematic advertising requirement
39 Berkeley DB New BSD license with additional requirement that linked software must be free open source
40 Boost MIT-like license
42 Versions used in this release:
52 The UI layout is edited with wxFormBuilder. The project file is
53 uiproject.fbp. It generates uibase.cpp and uibase.h, which define base
54 classes that do the rote work of constructing all the UI elements.
56 The release is built with GCC and then "strip bitcoin.exe" to strip the debug
57 symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.
62 cd \wxwidgets\build\msw
70 Bitcoin does not use any encryption. If you want to do a no-everything
71 build of OpenSSL to exclude encryption routines, a few patches are required.
72 (instructions for OpenSSL v0.9.8k)
74 Edit engines\e_gmp.c and engines\e_capi.c and add this #ifndef around
75 the openssl/rsa.h include:
76 #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_RSA
77 #include <openssl/rsa.h>
80 Edit ms\mingw32.bat and replace the Configure line's parameters with this
81 no-everything list. You have to put this in the batch file because batch
82 files can't take more than nine command line parameters.
83 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
85 Also REM out the following line in ms\mingw32.bat after the mingw32-make
86 line. The build fails after it's already finished building libeay32, which
87 is all we care about, but the failure aborts the script before it runs
88 dllwrap to generate libeay32.dll.
89 REM if errorlevel 1 goto end
95 If you want to use it with MSVC, generate the .lib file
96 lib /machine:i386 /def:ms\libeay32.def /out:out\libeay32.lib
101 Using MinGW and MSYS:
103 sh ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx
109 download bjam.exe from
110 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=72941
112 bjam toolset=gcc --build-type=complete stage
114 bjam toolset=msvc --build-type=complete stage