[Pkg-bitcoin-commits] [bitcoin] 01/12: [doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty works
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Author: MarcoFalke <falke.marco at gmail.com>
Date: Wed Aug 23 10:10:14 2017 -0400
[doc] build-windows: Mention that only trusty works
Github-Pull: #11119
Rebased-From: fa14b6797088065f890b33c1a2c7f6ee4af20c6c
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doc/build-windows.md | 3 +++
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diff --git a/doc/build-windows.md b/doc/build-windows.md
index 9549a4b..ca1a05d 100644
--- a/doc/build-windows.md
+++ b/doc/build-windows.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Below are some notes on how to build Bitcoin Core for Windows.
Most developers use cross-compilation from Ubuntu to build executables for
Windows. This is also used to build the release binaries.
+Currently only building on Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 is supported.
+Other versions are unsupported or known to be broken (e.g. Ubuntu Xenial 16.04).
+
While there are potentially a number of ways to build on Windows (for example using msys / mingw-w64),
using the Windows Subsystem For Linux is the most straightforward. If you are building with
another method, please contribute the instructions here for others who are running versions
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