BitCoin v0.01 ALPHA Copyright (c) 2009 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). Compilers Supported ------------------- MinGW GCC (v3.4.5) Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP6 Dependencies ------------ Libraries you need to obtain separately to build: default path download wxWidgets \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 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. (OpenSSL v0.9.8h) Edit engines\e_gmp.c and put this #ifndef around #include <openssl/rsa.h> #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_RSA #include <openssl/rsa.h> #endif Add this to crypto\err\err_all.c before the ERR_load_crypto_strings line: void ERR_load_RSA_strings(void) { } 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 handle more than 9 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. 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 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 ----------- MinGW with MSYS: cd \DB\build_unix sh ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx make Boost ----- You may need Boost version 1.35 to build with MSVC 6.0. I couldn't get version 1.37 to compile with MSVC 6.0.