Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Archaeology

[Dan Bryant <dkbryant@gmail.com>]

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I've gathered all the source archives from v0.1.0 to v0.9.0 with the
exception of one.

I can't get v0.1.2 anywhere.  None of the crawlers from Web Archive seemed
to have captured it.  I realize the build was recalled, but I would still
like to examine it purely out of curiosity.

Does anyone know of a mirror or have a personal copy of "bitcoin-0.1.2.rar"
from 2009 / 2010 that they would be willing to share?  Even a checksum
would be nice so I could verify what I had if I ever come across it in the
future.

First and last sighting of it on Web Archive:

*
http://web.archive.org/web/20091127010808/http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files
*
http://web.archive.org/web/20101210071124/http://sourceforge.net:80/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 11:41 PM Dan Bryant <dkbryant@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I'm set now.  I should have everything I need from v0.1.0 to
> 0.3.13 when they changed the compiler.  I'll refine it a bit more then
> eventually start posting the binary builds on the repo below.  I might go
> ahead and disable the IRC bot to ensure people don't inadvertently spam the
> `#bitcoin` IRC.  Since I have a patch process worked out it should be
> fairly straight forward.  Since the official builds pickup at v0.8.6, I'll
> likely stop there.
>
> https://github.com/brianddk/bitcoin-archaeology
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 11:00 AM Dan Bryant <dkbryant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Finally got it working,but was a bit harder than I expected.  I had to
>> forgo the OpenSSL modifications that Satoshi originally suggested.  I also
>> switched to Strawberry Perl.  Those two changes seemed to fix the OpenSSL
>> build.  Everything else was all essentially as documented in v0.4.0, which
>> is the first version to put all the build steps out in detail.  The one
>> exception is the bitcoin build itself.  There are three minor issues that
>> can be worked around with copy commands.
>>
>> 1. The Makefile points to /wxWidgets/lib/vc_lib/ where it should really
>> point to /wxWidgets/lib/gcc_lib/
>> 2. The Makefile points to /OpenSSL/include where it should really point
>> to /OpenSSL/outinc
>> 3. The Makefile builds to /obj without first creating the directory
>>
>> That covers v0.1.5, and I think it will probably be smooth sailing from
>> there all the way to v0.4.0.  I'll verify that my v0.1.5 toolchain can
>> build v0.1.0 and v0.1.3 as well.  For anyone interested, here are the
>> binaries I used to create the build environment.  All of them are
>> vintage and would have been accessible to Satoshi with the exception of
>> Win2012 and VirtualBox.  I'll try to reproduce my work on a Win2000 which
>> is now quasi-open-domain.
>>
>> For anyone wanting to give it a shot...
>>
>> * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2012
>> *
>> https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.12/VirtualBox-6.1.12-139181-Win.exe
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/zlib-1.2.3-bin.zip
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/bzip2-1.0.5-bin.zip
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/libarchive-2.4.12-1-bin.zip
>> *
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/binutils-2.19.1-mingw32-bin.tar.gz
>> *
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gcc-core-3.4.5-20051220-1.tar.gz
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gcc-g++-3.4.5-20051220-1.tar.gz
>> *
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
>> *
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingwrt-3.15.2-mingw32-dll.tar.gz
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/w32api-3.13-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
>> *
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw32-make-3.81-20080326-2.tar.gz
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.11.exe
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
>> * http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.8.8/strawberry-perl-5.8.8.2.zip
>> * https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/archive/v0.1.5.zip
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.8.11.zip
>> * https://github.com/openssl/openssl/archive/OpenSSL_0_9_8h.zip
>> * https://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.7.25.NC.zip
>> * https://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/1.37.0/boost_1_37_0.zip
>> *
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-jam/boost-jam-3.1.17-1-ntx86.zip
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 9:06 AM Dan Bryant <dkbryant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> TLDR; How to build old OpenSSL releases in MSYS/MinGW v1.0.11
>>>
>>> In a similar vein to the Github Artic Code Vault, and the Nakamoto
>>> Institute, I thought it would be educational to do a build of the first
>>> three versions of Bitcoin (v0.1.0, v0.1.3, and v0.1.5) [ref1].  Don't
>>> worry, I will keep these on a VLAN and not spam the IRC channel.
>>>
>>> Wanting to be as accurate as possible, I spun up some VMs to try to
>>> recreate the vintage Oct 2009 toolchains that were used.  The original
>>> Satoshi posts seem to imply that the builds could be done using Visual C++
>>> version 6.0 or MinGW and MSYS (which were at v1.0.11).  Since it looks like
>>> most versions of VC 6 have been purged from the internet, the only option
>>> left is MinGW which is still up on sourceforge.  Most things seemed to
>>> build OK, with the exception of OpenSSL, which looks to fail due to some
>>> issues in mk1mf.pl [ref2]  Perhaps there was a bad version of perl in
>>> MSYS v1.0.11, I'm not sure.
>>>
>>> So my question is..  Has anyone been here long enough to recall the
>>> steps to build OpenSSL v0.9.8h in MSYS 1.0.11?  Or, does anyone know where
>>> to find a non-sketchy copy of Visual C++ 6.0?
>>>
>>> My options so far seem to be.
>>>
>>> 1. Try to find out how Satoshi did the MinGW OpenSSL build back in 2009.
>>> 2. Try to do the OpenSSL build through Cygwin which could
>>> cross-complile to MinGW at the time
>>> 3. Try to do the  OpenSSL build through Msys2 with later versions of
>>> perl and libc
>>> 4. Buy some sketchy version of VC 6 on ebay and try that
>>> 5. Patch Bitcoin 0.1.0 to use OpenSSL v1.0.0 where they fixed the perl
>>> bug
>>> 6. Give up and use a precompiled OpenSSL release
>>> 7. Give up and use the Linux build methods introduced in Bitcoin v0.1.6
>>>
>>> I realize this all sounds like a fool's folly, but it seems important
>>> (at some level) to be able to reproduce these old builds.  But perhaps it's
>>> just my OCD.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> For those interested.  The mk1mf.pl bug seems to be in parsing the list
>>> of headers through either the var_add, clean_up_ws, or do_copy_rule subs.
>>> I see both the headers and header directories being parsed, but the
>>> directories are dropped when building the make rules causing make to assume
>>> all headers are at root, failing the build.  Perhaps there is a version
>>> sed, basename or dirname that is missing in MSYS, but I've failed to find
>>> the dependency yet.
>>>
>>> * ref1: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code/
>>> * ref1:
>>> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/OpenSSL_0_9_8h/util/mk1mf.pl
>>>
>>>

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