# Gavin Andresen
# 2012-06-03 18:28:32
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84984.msg938775#msg938775

I'd love to see somebody resurrect the Visual C++ makefile and build instructions (and let us know if we've accidentally added and gcc-specific code), so Windows developers didn't have to spin up a VM and cross-compile everything. @p{par}

As to why your builds are different:  no idea, but you can look at the file-by-file checksums in the bitcoin-build.assert file to see exactly what is different. @p{brk}