[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Archaeology

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Archaeology

[Dan Bryant]

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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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Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Archaeology

[Dan Bryant]

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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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Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Archaeology

[Dan Bryant]

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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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Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Archaeology

[Dan Bryant]

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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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