3a573fd46c
0164b0f5cf80cd00a4914d9fea0bcb9508cb7607 build: Remove WINVER pre define in Makefile.leveldb.inlcude (Chun Kuan Lee)
d0522ec94ebbaa564f5f6b31236d4df032664411 Drop defunct Windows compat fixes (Ben Woosley)
d8a299206780b38959d732cbe40ba1dd25834f0e windows: Call SetProcessDEPPolicy directly (Chun Kuan Lee)
1bd9ffdd44000b208d29d35451f4dc9f1ac9318f windows: Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0601 (Windows 7) (Chun Kuan Lee)
Pull request description:
The current minimum support Windows version is Vista. So set it to 0x0600
5a88def8ad/mingw-w64-headers/include/sdkddkver.h (L19)
Tree-SHA512: 38e2afc79426ae547131c8ad3db2e0a7f54a95512f341cfa0c06e4b2fe79521ae67d2795ef96b0192e683e4f1ba6183c010d7b4b8d6b3e68b9bf48c374c59e7d
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/, or read the original whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.
Translators should also subscribe to the mailing list.