mmgen-wallet/doc/MMGenBuildBitcoindMSWin.md

MMGen = Multi-Mode GENerator

a Bitcoin cold storage solution for the command line

Build Bitcoind on Microsoft Windows

Build the Berkeley Database (v5.0):

Grab the v5.0 tarball, or browse the download page for different versions. Unpack the archive to C:\ and execute the following from your MSYS shell:

	$ cd /c/db-5.0.32/build_unix
	$ ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx --disable-replication

Edit the source file db.h in the build_unix directory, moving to line 113 and replacing the statement typedef pthread_t db_threadid_t; with typedef u_int32_t db_threadid_t;.

Since the script creates the file, this must be done after the configure script is run. Now execute:

	$ make
	$ make install

Install the MASM assembler (optional but recommended):

Get the file MASMsetup.exe from the Microsoft website. With a tool like 7zip, open the cab file inside and the file inside it, which begins with FL_ml_exe. Copy this file to your path, renaming it to ml.exe.

Build the Boost libraries:

Browse the download page, or get the tarball from sourceforge. Unpack boost_1_55_0.tar.gz to C:\, and type the following from your DOS prompt:

	cd \boost_1_55_0
	boostrap.bat
	bjam toolset=gcc link=static threading=single --build-type=minimal stage --with-system --with-filesystem --with-program_options --with-chrono --with-test
	bjam toolset=gcc link=static threading=multi --build-type=minimal stage --with-thread

These commands build just the few libraries we need, avoiding the time-consuming process of building the whole boost package.

Build Bitcoind:

Download Sipa's watchonly bitcoind tarball from GitHub and unzip it to C:\.

From the MSYS prompt:

	$ cd /c/bitcoin-watchonly

Add the following lines to the end of src/leveldb/build_detect_platform:

	$ echo "DIRS=$DIRS" >> $OUTPUT
	$ echo "PORT_FILE=$PORT_FILE" >> $OUTPUT

Make the following changes to src/leveldb/Makefile:

After the line include build_config.mk add the following line:

		SOURCES=$(shell for i in $(DIRS); do echo $$i/*.cc; done)

Change the line LIBOBJECTS = $(SOURCES:.cc=.o) to read LIBOBJECTS = $(SOURCES:.cc=.o) $(PORT_FILE:.cc=.o)

Change the line all: $(SHARED) $(LIBRARY) to read all: $(LIBRARY)

For each of the following files:

	src/rpcdump.cpp
	src/rpcnet.cpp
	src/rpcwallet.cpp
	src/wallet.cpp
	src/walletdb.cpp

add the line #include <winsock2.h> at the beginning, before the first #include statement.

In the following files:

	src/leveldb/db/db_test.cc
	src/leveldb/db/db_bench.cc
	src/leveldb/db/autocompact_test.cc
	src/leveldb/db/leveldb_main.cc

delete everything from int main(int argc,.. to the end of the file.

Do the following file-copying operations (needs to be done just once):

	$ cp /mingw/bin/autoreconf-2.68 /mingw/bin/autoreconf
	$ cp /mingw/bin/autoconf-2.68 /mingw/bin/autoconf
	$ cp /mingw/bin/automake-1.11 /mingw/bin/automake
	$ cp /mingw/bin/aclocal-1.11 /mingw/bin/aclocal

Generate the configure script:

	$ sh autogen.sh

Edit the just-created configure script:

After the line:

		LIBS="$LIBS $BOOST_LIBS $BOOST_CHRONO_LIB"

add the line:

		CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $BOOST_CPPFLAGS"

Export variables for configure to pass to the preprocessor and linker:

	$ export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.0/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include"
	$ export LDFLAGS="-static -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.0/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib"
	$ export BOOST_ROOT=/c/boost_1_55_0

Run configure and then make:

	$ ./configure --without-qt --with-incompatible-bdb
	$ make src/bitcoind.exe

Strip the executable (strip src/bitcoind.exe), copy it to your path and test by running bitcoind. You may need to supply an argument to the -datadir option so the daemon can find your wallet and configuration file.