From 850eabed60f0fee133da90d9e18d539a4062a60b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nformant <54002590+nformant1@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 10:57:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update build-windows.md added syntax highlighting to code blocks --- doc/build-windows.md | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/build-windows.md b/doc/build-windows.md index f4c071038..5b2f95e1a 100644 --- a/doc/build-windows.md +++ b/doc/build-windows.md @@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ will also work on other Linux distributions, however the commands for installing the toolchain will be different. Install the general dependencies. First, ensure your system is updated and has the latest security patches. - - sudo apt update - sudo apt upgrade - sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config bsdmainutils curl git - +```bash +sudo apt update +sudo apt upgrade +sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config bsdmainutils curl git +``` A host toolchain (`build-essential`) is necessary because some dependency packages (such as `protobuf`) need to build host utilities that are used in the build process. @@ -69,15 +69,15 @@ a zip file. (Look at the green "<> Code" button on [the Dogecoin GitHub reposito Make sure this code is available in your Ubuntu directory. If you've unzipped a single downloaded file, you may need to change the permissions of all extracted files with command like: - - sudo chmod -R . - +```bash +sudo chmod -R . +``` If you've downloaded via `git`, do not use `sudo`. Instead prefer something like: - - cd $HOME - git clone https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin.git - git checkout - +```bash +cd $HOME +git clone https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin.git +git checkout +``` ... where `` is the name of the branch you want to build, such as "1.14.7-dev" for the unstable branch or "master" for the most recent stable release. @@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ release. ## Building for 64-bit Windows To build executables for Windows 64-bit, install the following dependencies: - - sudo apt-get install g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 - +```bash +sudo apt-get install g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 +``` For Ubuntu 20.04, set the default mingw32 g++ compiler option to posix: - - sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ - +```bash +sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ +``` ...Choose the "posix" (vs 'auto' or 'win32') option, and continue. Note that for WSL v1 the Dogecoin Core source path MUST be somewhere in the default mount file system, for @@ -101,33 +101,33 @@ If this is not the case the dependency autoconf scripts will fail (silently.) This means you cannot use a directory that is located directly on the host Windows file system to perform the build. To identify your version of WSL, run the command: - - wsl -l -v - +```powershell +wsl -l -v +``` If using WSL 1, you'll need to turn off WSL Support for Win32 applications temporarily, or you will get ABI errors and format errors for some .o files. If using WSL 1 then build using: - - PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e 's/:\/mnt.*//g') # strip out problematic Windows %PATH% imported var - sudo bash -c "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/status" # Temporarily Disable WSL support for Win32 applications. - cd depends - make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 - cd .. - ./autogen.sh # not required when building from release tarball - CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure --prefix=/ - make - sudo bash -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/status" # Re-Enable WSL support for Win32 applications. - +```bash +PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e 's/:\/mnt.*//g') # strip out problematic Windows %PATH% imported var +sudo bash -c "echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/status" # Temporarily Disable WSL support for Win32 applications. +cd depends +make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 +cd .. +./autogen.sh # not required when building from release tarball +CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure --prefix=/ +make +sudo bash -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/status" # Re-Enable WSL support for Win32 applications. +``` If using WSL 2 then you should be able to build just with: - - PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e 's/:\/mnt.*//g') # strip out problematic Windows %PATH% imported var - cd depends - make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 - cd .. - ./autogen.sh # not required when building from release tarball - CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure --prefix=/ - make - +```bash +PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -e 's/:\/mnt.*//g') # strip out problematic Windows %PATH% imported var +cd depends +make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 +cd .. +./autogen.sh # not required when building from release tarball +CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure --prefix=/ +make +``` In either case, be aware that if the first `make` invocation fails, you will see further errors during the `./configure` and second `make` stages. Please report any errors with this in mind. @@ -136,22 +136,22 @@ Also be careful using the `-j` flag with any `make` command. People have reporte ## Building for 32-bit Windows To build executables for Windows 32-bit, install the following dependencies: - - sudo apt-get install g++-mingw-w64-i686 mingw-w64-i686-dev - +```bash +sudo apt-get install g++-mingw-w64-i686 mingw-w64-i686-dev +``` Ensure that this toolchain can build for `posix` (else you may have compilation errors for Dogecoin's dependencies): - - sudo update-alternatives --config i686-w64-mingw32-g++ - +```bash +sudo update-alternatives --config i686-w64-mingw32-g++ +``` Choose the `posix` option (instead of `auto` or `win32`), and continue. Then build using: - - cd depends - make HOST=i686-w64-mingw32 - cd .. - ./autogen.sh # not required when building from tarball - CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/i686-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure --prefix=/ - make - +```bash +cd depends +make HOST=i686-w64-mingw32 +cd .. +./autogen.sh # not required when building from tarball +CONFIG_SITE=$PWD/depends/i686-w64-mingw32/share/config.site ./configure --prefix=/ +make +``` ## Depends system For further documentation on the depends system see [README.md](../depends/README.md) in the `depends/` directory. @@ -163,5 +163,6 @@ After building using the Windows subsystem it can be useful to copy the compiled executables to a directory on the windows drive in the same directory structure as they appear in the release `.zip` archive. This can be done in the following way. This will install to `c:\workspace\dogecoin`, for example: - - make install DESTDIR=/mnt/c/workspace/dogecoin +```bash +make install DESTDIR=/mnt/c/workspace/dogecoin +```