Bitcoin Forum

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Building headless Bitcoin and Bitcoin-qt on Windows
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1. Prepare your build system.
I strongly suggest setting up a clean windows virtual machine via Virtualbox or similar.

1.1 Install msys shell:
http[Suspicious link removed]/download
From MinGW installation manager -> All packages -> MSYS
mark the following for installation:

msys-base-bin
msys-autoconf-bin
msys-automake-bin
msys-libtool-bin

then click on Installation -> Apply changes

Make sure no mingw packages are checked for installation or present from a previous install. 
Only the above msys packages should be installed. Also make sure that msys-gcc and msys-w32api packages 
are not installed.
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1.2 Install MinGW-builds project toolchain:
64 bit binaries
64 bit binaries can be compiled by using the following toolchain:
Download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.2/threads-posix/seh/x86_64-4.9.2-release-posix-seh-rt_v3-rev1.7z/download
and unpack it to C:\
All dependencies must be rebuilt with the above toolchain.
Openssl should be configured for: mingw64
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1.3. Ensure that mingw-builds bin folder is set in your PATH environment variable. 
On Windows 7 your path should look something like:
C:\mingw64\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
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1.4 Additional checks:
C:\MinGW\bin should contain nothing but mingw-get.exe.
Your gcc -v output should be:
$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=c:\mingw32\bin\gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw32/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.2/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: i686-w64-mingw32
Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-4.9.2/configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw32 --with-sysroot=/c/mingw492/i686-492-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev1/mingw32 --with-gxx-include-dir=/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/include/c++ --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-multilib --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,lto --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-threads=posix --enable-libgomp --enable-libatomic --enable-lto --enable-graphite --enable-checking=release --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 --disable-isl-version-check --disable-cloog-version-check --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-bootstrap --disable-rpath --disable-win32-registry --disable-nls --disable-werror --disable-symvers --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-arch=i686 --with-tune=generic --with-libiconv --with-system-zlib --with-gmp=/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-mpfr=/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-mpc=/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-isl=/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-cloog=/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-pkgversion='i686-posix-dwarf-rev1, Built by MinGW-W64 project' --with-bugurl=http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64 CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -I/c/mingw492/i686-492-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev1/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -I/c/mingw492/i686-492-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev1/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' CPPFLAGS= LDFLAGS='-pipe -L/c/mingw492/i686-492-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev1/mingw32/opt/lib -L/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/lib -L/c/mingw492/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/lib -Wl,--large-address-aware'
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.9.2 (i686-posix-dwarf-rev1, Built by MinGW-W64 project)
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2. Download, unpack and build required dependencies.
I'll save them in c:\deps folder.
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2.1 OpenSSL: http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1l.tar.gz
From a MinGw shell (C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat), unpack the source archive with tar (this will avoid symlink issues) then configure and make:

cd /c/deps/
tar xvfz openssl-1.0.1l.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.1l
./Configure no-zlib no-shared no-dso no-krb5 no-camellia no-capieng no-cast no-cms no-dtls1 no-gost no-gmp no-heartbeats no-idea no-jpake no-md2 no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-rdrand no-rfc3779 no-rsax no-sctp no-seed no-sha0 no-static_engine no-whirlpool no-rc2 no-rc4 no-ssl2 no-ssl3 mingw64
make

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2.2 Berkeley DB: http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
We'll use version 4.8 to preserve binary wallet compatibility.
From a MinGW shell unpack the source archive, configure and make:

cd /c/deps/
tar xvfz db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz
cd db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix
../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx --disable-shared --disable-replication
make

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2.3 Boost: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.57.0/
Download either the zip or the 7z archive, unpack boost inside your C:\deps folder, then bootstrap and compile from a Windows command prompt:
Code:

cd C:\
cd C:\deps\boost_1_57_0\
bootstrap.bat mingw
b2 --build-type=complete --with-chrono --with-filesystem --with-program_options --with-system --with-thread toolset=gcc variant=release link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static stage


This will compile the required boost libraries and put them into the stage folder (C:\deps\boost_1_57_0\stage).
Note: make sure you don't use tarballs, as unix EOL markers can break batch files.
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2.4 Miniupnpc: http://miniupnp.free.fr/files/download.php?file=miniupnpc-1.9.20150206.tar.gz
Unpack Miniupnpc to C:\deps, rename containing folder from "miniupnpc-1.9.20150206" to "miniupnpc" then from a Windows command prompt:
Code:

cd C:\deps\miniupnpc
mingw32-make -f Makefile.mingw init upnpc-static

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2.5 protoc and libprotobuf:
Download https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v2.6.1/protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz
Then from msys shell
Code:

cd /c/deps/
tar xvfz protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz
cd /c/deps/protobuf-2.6.1
configure --disable-shared
make

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2.6 qrencode:
Download and unpack http://download.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.6.16.tar.gz inside your deps folder then configure and make:
Code:

cd /c/deps/
tar xvfz libpng-1.6.16.tar.gz
cd /c/deps/libpng-1.6.16
configure --disable-shared
make
cp .libs/libpng16.a .libs/libpng.a

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Download and unpack http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/qrencode-3.4.4.tar.gz inside your deps folder then configure and make:
Code:
cd /c/deps/
tar xvfz qrencode-3.4.4.tar.gz
cd /c/deps/qrencode-3.4.4

LIBS="../libpng-1.6.16/.libs/libpng.a ../../mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libz.a" \
png_CFLAGS="-I../libpng-1.6.16" \
png_LIBS="-L../libpng-1.6.16/.libs" \
configure --enable-static --disable-shared --without-tools

make

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2.6.2 Libevent for Bitcoin-0.17.0

cd /c/deps/
tar xvfz libevent-2.0.21-stable.tar.gz
cd /c/deps/libevent-2.0.21-stable
configure
make

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2.7 Qt 5 libraries:
Qt must be configured with ssl and zlib support.
Download and unpack Qt base and tools sources:
http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.3/5.3.2/submodules/qtbase-opensource-src-5.3.2.7z
http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.3/5.3.2/submodules/qttools-opensource-src-5.3.2.7z
Then from a windows command prompt (note that the following assumes qtbase has been unpacked to C:\Qt\5.3.2 and qttools have been unpacked to C:\Qt\qttools-opensource-src-5.3.2):
Code:

cd C:\

set INCLUDE=C:\deps\libpng-1.6.16;C:\deps\openssl-1.0.1l\include
set LIB=C:\deps\libpng-1.6.16\.libs;C:\deps\openssl-1.0.1l

cd C:\Qt\5.3.2
configure.bat -release -opensource -confirm-license -static -make libs -no-sql-sqlite -no-opengl -system-zlib -qt-pcre -no-icu -no-gif -system-libpng -no-libjpeg -no-freetype -no-angle -no-vcproj -openssl -no-dbus -no-audio-backend -no-wmf-backend -no-qml-debug

mingw32-make

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Qt\5.3.2\bin

cd C:\Qt\qttools-opensource-src-5.3.2
qmake qttools.pro
mingw32-make

Note: consider using -j switch with mingw32-make to speed up compilation process. On a quad core -j4 or -j5 should give the best results.
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3. Download and unpack Bitcoin-0.17.0 from https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.17.0/bitcoin-0.17.0.tar.gz
From msys shell configure and make bitcoin:
Code:

cd /c/bitcoin-0.17.0

./autogen.sh

CPPFLAGS="-I/c/deps/db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix \
-I/c/deps/openssl-1.0.1l/include \
-I/c/deps \
-I/c/deps/protobuf-2.6.1/src \
-I/c/deps/libpng-1.6.16 \
-I/c/deps/qrencode-3.4.4 \
-I/c/deps/gmp-6.0.0 \
-I/c/deps/libevent-2.0.21-stable/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/c/deps/db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix \
-L/c/deps/openssl-1.0.1l \
-L/c/deps/miniupnpc \
-L/c/deps/protobuf-2.6.1/src/.libs \
-L/c/deps/libpng-1.6.16/.libs \
-L/c/deps/qrencode-3.4.4/.libs \
-L/c/deps/gmp-6.0.0/.libs \
-L/c/deps/libevent-2.0.21-stable/.libs" \
BOOST_ROOT=/c/deps/boost_1_57_0 \
./configure \
--disable-upnp-default \
--disable-tests \
--with-qt-incdir=/c/Qt/5.3.2/include \
--with-qt-libdir=/c/Qt/5.3.2/lib \
--with-qt-plugindir=/c/Qt/5.3.2/plugins \
--with-qt-bindir=/c/Qt/5.3.2/bin \
--with-protoc-bindir=/c/deps/protobuf-2.6.1/src 

make

strip src/bitcoin-tx.exe
strip src/bitcoin-cli.exe
strip src/bitcoind.exe
cd /c/bitcoin-0.17.0/src/qt
strip bitcoin-qt.exe
cd /c/bitcoin-0.17.0/src/bench/
strip bench_bitcoin.exe

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