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Building Bitcoin Core with Visual Studio
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Introduction
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Solution and project files to build the Bitcoin Core applications (except Qt dependent ones) with Visual Studio 2017 can be found in the build_msvc directory.
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Building with Visual Studio is an alternative to the Linux based [cross-compiler build](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-windows.md).
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Dependencies
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A number of [open source libraries](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/dependencies.md) are required in order to be able to build Bitcoin.
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Options for installing the dependencies in a Visual Studio compatible manner are:
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- Use Microsoft's [vcpkg](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/vcpkg) to download the source packages and build locally. This is the recommended approach.
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- Download the source code, build each dependency, add the required include paths, link libraries and binary tools to the Visual Studio project files.
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- Use [nuget](https://www.nuget.org/) packages with the understanding that any binary files have been compiled by an untrusted third party.
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The external dependencies required for the Visual Studio build are (see the [dependencies doc](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/dependencies.md) for versions):
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- Berkeley DB,
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- OpenSSL,
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- Boost,
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- libevent,
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- ZeroMQ
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Additional dependencies required from the [bitcoin-core](https://github.com/bitcoin-core) github repository are:
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- SECP256K1,
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- LevelDB
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Building
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The instructions below use `vcpkg` to install the dependencies.
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- Clone `vcpkg` from the [github repository](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) and install as per the instructions in the main README.md.
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- Install the required packages (replace x64 with x86 as required):
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```
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PS >.\vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows-static boost-filesystem boost-signals2 boost-test libevent openssl zeromq berkeleydb secp256k1 leveldb
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```
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- Use Python to generate *.vcxproj from Makefile
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```
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PS >python msvc-autogen.py
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```
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- Build in Visual Studio.
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