Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
103 lines (66 loc) · 2.47 KB

windows.md

File metadata and controls

103 lines (66 loc) · 2.47 KB

Windows 10 Notes

Development Setup

Download

Download a Windows 10 Development Environment VM.

Import & Settings

Import WinDev1912Eval.ovf into Virtualbox.

Open Settings:

  • System

    • Increase base memory.
    • Increase processor count.

  • Display:

    • Increase video memory.

  • Audio

    • Disable Audio.

Boot

Update Virtualbox Gust Additions if required.

Go to Updates & Security, install all updates.

Clear the desktop and the taskbar.

Open Apps & Features. Uninstall pretty much everything.

Update Visual Studio. Remove everything except the C++ dev workload, git and Python3.

If you want to use WSL, open Ubuntu and update packages. Clone the bitcoin repo etc.

Reboot.

Install dependencies and generate project files

Vcpkg is used to install build dependencies. See the Bitcoin Core MSVC build docs for more info.

Open Developer Powershell for VS 2019:

git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git

cd vcpkg
.\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat -disableMetrics

# hook up user-wide integration
.\vcpkg.exe integrate install

# Install Bitcoin Core dependencies
.\vcpkg.exe install --triplet x64-windows-static $(Get-Content -Path ..\bitcoin\build_msvc\vcpkg-packages.txt).split()
cd ..

# Generate Project Files
cd bitcoin\build_msvc
py -3 msvc-autogen.py

Build

msbuild /m bitcoin.sln /p:Platform=x64 /p:Configuration=Release /t:build

Alternatively, open bitcoin\build_msvc\bitcoin.sln in Visual Studio.

If you are asked to Retarget Projects, choose Yes.

Choose Release and x64, then Build -> Build Solution.

Create a VM Snapshot

The Microsoft VMs expire after 90 days.

Once everything is setup, take a VM snapshot.

Windows

Tools

dumpbin

Installed alongside MSVC. More info here.

<# used for inspecting binaries #>
dumpbin /headers src/bitcoind.exe
...
	 160 DLL characteristics
	       High Entropy Virtual Addresses
	       Dynamic base
	       NX compatible

Process Explorer

Inspect a running process, more in-depth than Task Manager.

Download from Microsoft here.