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fa8762da62build: ci/doc win64-cross build via nix (MarcoFalke)fafe7205ccdoc: Clarify that cygwin/msys2 are not tested/supported (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: Release cross-builds to win64 are done in guix. There are also docs to use Debian/Ubuntu for those cross-builds and this approach is used in CI. However, there are many problems: * The CI is intended to mirror the guix build, but often it is not possible to find the major versions used for mingw and GCC in the guix build in the `apt` packages for an LTS distro. * Users on older distro releases may lack released bugfixes, such as8e06daa36din mingw 13 (e.g. Debian Trixie with mingw 12, https://packages.debian.org/trixie/mingw-w64-x86-64-dev). * When using the UCRT variant of the build, this uncovers bugs such as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mingw-w64/+bug/2106420 or https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1121403. So add a way to use nix to do the cross build. This allows to closer mimic the guix build. Also, clarify that cygwin/msys2 are not tested/supported. ACKs for top commit: willcl-ark: reACKfa8762da62hebasto: re-ACKfa8762da62. Tree-SHA512: de94f8bc4bb6ed9a75352cd909aa227c5954e336bf9b14969d7412b5cedfbe6cd6b2d8b476d5b1b0bcfc93bdb32fc229015855082350c8c507189e34b9b3ef3f
Repository Tools
Developer tools
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
Additional tools, including the github-merge.py script, are available in the maintainer-tools repository.
Verify-Commits
Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the github-merge.py script.
Linearize
Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.
Qos
A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.
Seeds
Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.
ASMap
Utilities to analyze and process asmap files.
Build Tools and Keys
Packaging
The Debian subfolder contains the copyright file.
All other packaging related files can be found in the bitcoin-core/packaging repository.
MacDeploy
Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
Test and Verify Tools
TestGen
Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
Verify-Binaries
This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.
Command Line Tools
Completions
Shell completions for bash and fish.
UTXO Set Tools
UTXO-to-SQLite
This script converts a compact-serialized UTXO set (as generated by Bitcoin Core with dumptxoutset)
to a SQLite3 database. For more details like e.g. the created table name and schema, refer to the
module docstring on top of the script, which is also contained in the command's --help output.