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+Bitcoin v0.2.0 BETA
+
+Copyright (c) 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto
+Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
+file license.txt or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in
+the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).  This product includes
+cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
+
+
+ WINDOWS BUILD NOTES
+
+
+Compilers Supported
+-------------------
+MinGW GCC
+Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP6
+
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+Libraries you need to obtain separately to build:
+
+              default path   download
+wxWidgets      \wxwidgets     http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/
+                                or prebuilt: http://wxpack.sourceforge.net
+OpenSSL        \openssl       http://www.openssl.org/source/
+Berkeley DB    \db            http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html
+Boost          \boost         http://www.boost.org/users/download/
+
+Their licenses:
+wxWidgets      LGPL 2.1 with very liberal exceptions
+OpenSSL        Old BSD license with the problematic advertising requirement
+Berkeley DB    New BSD license with additional requirement that linked software must be free open source
+Boost          MIT-like license
+
+Versions used in this release:
+MinGW GCC    3.4.5
+wxWidgets    2.8.9
+OpenSSL      0.9.8k
+Berkeley DB  4.7.25.NC
+Boost        1.34.1
+
+
+Notes
+-----
+The UI layout is edited with wxFormBuilder.  Open the project file
+uiproject.fbp.  It generates uibase.cpp and uibase.h, which define base
+classes that do the rote work of constructing all the UI elements.
+
+The release is built with GCC and then "strip bitcoin.exe" to strip the debug
+symbols, which reduces the executable size by about 90%.
+
+
+OpenSSL
+-------
+Bitcoin does not use any encryption.  If you want to do a no-everything
+build of OpenSSL to exclude encryption routines, a few patches are required.
+(instructions for OpenSSL v0.9.8k)
+
+Edit engines\e_gmp.c and engines\e_capi.c and add this #ifndef around
+the openssl/rsa.h include:
+  #ifndef OPENSSL_NO_RSA
+  #include <openssl/rsa.h>
+  #endif
+
+Edit ms\mingw32.bat and replace the Configure line's parameters with this
+no-everything list.  You have to put this in the batch file because batch
+files can't take more than nine command line parameters.
+  perl Configure mingw threads no-rc2 no-rc4 no-rc5 no-idea no-des no-bf no-cast no-aes no-camellia no-seed no-rsa no-dh
+
+Also REM out the following line in ms\mingw32.bat after the mingw32-make
+line.  The build fails after it's already finished building libeay32, which
+is all we care about, but the failure aborts the script before it runs
+dllwrap to generate libeay32.dll.
+  REM  if errorlevel 1 goto end
+
+Build
+  cd \openssl
+  ms\mingw32.bat
+
+If you want to use it with MSVC, generate the .lib file
+  lib /machine:i386 /def:ms\libeay32.def /out:out\libeay32.lib
+
+
+Berkeley DB
+-----------
+Using MinGW and MSYS:
+cd \db\build_unix
+sh ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --enable-cxx
+make