This PR was motivated by a comment in GUI PR (257) regarding a suggested improvement not being supported by VS2017.
When checking whether master can still be built with the VS2017 toolset ABI issues were encountered. Most likely due to the pre-compiled Qt binaries that are used.
It does not seem worth the effort to try and support VS2017, which would most likely require additional Qt binaries, or lengthy instructions on how to build static Qt binaries on Windows (which is very error prone and tedious).
Added advisory note about build not working with earlier Visual Studio versions.
Fixed grammar.
9bd3f35003 build: adds switch for disabling random base addresses in MSVC (Ethan Heilman)
Pull request description:
In m4 builds we have the --disable-hardening switch that can be given in `./configure` to turn off randomized addresses. This PR provides a simple way of turning off randomized addresses in MSVC builds.
This PR:
* Adds this option the common-init project file so that it can be globally set across the project
* Documents this switch in msvc build readme
I have run the following test to verify this works
I ran the msvc build with `<RandomizedBaseAddress>true</RandomizedBaseAddress>` then checked `bitcoind.exe` and `bitcoin-cli.exe` with `dumpbin.exe`:
bitcoind
```
> .\dumpbin.exe /headers src/bitcoind.exe
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.16.27045.0
...
OPTIONAL HEADER VALUES
20B magic # (PE32+)
14.28 linker version
AE4600 size of code
345C00 size of initialized data
0 size of uninitialized data
6BED74 entry point (00000001406BED74) mainCRTStartup
1000 base of code
140000000 image base (0000000140000000 to 0000000140E2DFFF)
1000 section alignment
200 file alignment
6.00 operating system version
0.00 image version
6.00 subsystem version
0 Win32 version
E2E000 size of image
400 size of headers
0 checksum
3 subsystem (Windows CUI)
8160 DLL characteristics
High Entropy Virtual Addresses
Dynamic base
NX compatible
Terminal Server Aware
```
bitcoin-cli
```
> .\dumpbin.exe /headers src/bitcoin-cli.exe
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.16.27045.0
...
OPTIONAL HEADER VALUES
20B magic # (PE32+)
14.28 linker version
1E3E00 size of code
92C00 size of initialized data
0 size of uninitialized data
104384 entry point (0000000140104384) mainCRTStartup
1000 base of code
140000000 image base (0000000140000000 to 0000000140279FFF)
1000 section alignment
200 file alignment
6.00 operating system version
0.00 image version
6.00 subsystem version
0 Win32 version
27A000 size of image
400 size of headers
0 checksum
3 subsystem (Windows CUI)
8160 DLL characteristics
High Entropy Virtual Addresses
Dynamic base
NX compatible
Terminal Server Aware
```
Then I built with `<RandomizedBaseAddress>false</RandomizedBaseAddress>` then checked `bitcoind.exe` and `bitcoin-cli.exe` with `dumpbin.exe` and observed that `Dynamic base` was longer listed in `OPTIONAL HEADER VALUES`
bitcoind
```
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\HostX64\x64> .\dumpbin.exe /headers C:\Users\e0\Documents\GitHub\bitcoin021noaslr/src/bitcoind.exe
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.16.27045.0
...
OPTIONAL HEADER VALUES
20B magic # (PE32+)
14.28 linker version
AE4600 size of code
33FE00 size of initialized data
0 size of uninitialized data
6BED74 entry point (00000001406BED74) mainCRTStartup
1000 base of code
140000000 image base (0000000140000000 to 0000000140E27FFF)
1000 section alignment
200 file alignment
6.00 operating system version
0.00 image version
6.00 subsystem version
0 Win32 version
E28000 size of image
400 size of headers
0 checksum
3 subsystem (Windows CUI)
8120 DLL characteristics
High Entropy Virtual Addresses
NX compatible
Terminal Server Aware
```
bitcoin-cli
```
> .\dumpbin.exe /headers src/bitcoin-cli.exe
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 14.16.27045.0
...
OPTIONAL HEADER VALUES
20B magic # (PE32+)
14.28 linker version
1E3E00 size of code
90C00 size of initialized data
0 size of uninitialized data
104384 entry point (0000000140104384) mainCRTStartup
1000 base of code
140000000 image base (0000000140000000 to 0000000140277FFF)
1000 section alignment
200 file alignment
6.00 operating system version
0.00 image version
6.00 subsystem version
0 Win32 version
278000 size of image
400 size of headers
0 checksum
3 subsystem (Windows CUI)
8120 DLL characteristics
High Entropy Virtual Addresses
NX compatible
Terminal Server Aware
```
ACKs for top commit:
sipsorcery:
ACK 9bd3f35003.
practicalswift:
cr ACK 9bd3f35003c2e9eff74766d57a71d6b391ab602a: patch looks correct
Tree-SHA512: ddffdb4ff8a09c7cfef61c07a5db2a2828e9e3aa795ad8e5a1bf51ab489a68b40f87f6694518c5e0b8858c0fad4f93bb947b052e6b9d5e55eb38e764b746fc02
`vcpkg integrate install` must be executed so that msbuild will automatically install external dependencies.
It was removed in 712f95d332
It was originally added in 7644567758
The vcpkg tool has introduced a proper way to use manifests, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/vcpkg-accelerate-your-team-development-environment-with-binary-caching-and-manifests/. This PR replaces the custom text file mechanism with the new manifest approach.
It is planned that vckpg manifests will include the ability to version dependencies in the future. Dependency versions would solve a number of issues that currently require workarounds with the appveyor CI.
Set vcpkg manifest version to 1 to avoid any perception it's related to any release or other version numbering.
- Update Visual Studio instructions.
- Remove x64 platform conditional from bitcoin-qt project configuration.
- Set use native environment toolset to fix linker warning.
- Ignore linker warning about precompiled type information missing for test_bitcoin_qt.
Aaron Clauson