diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cc7c3d3f8..3a126adef 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -120,3 +120,5 @@ share/BitcoindComparisonTool.jar
 /doc/doxygen/
 
 libbitcoinconsensus.pc
+
+cmake-build-*/
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..be924eac7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)
+project(lbrycrd_clion) # not expecting a full compile -- just something that allows clion syntax checking
+
+set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 98) # 03 is not supported by cmake, but this will soon be 11 (after upstream bitcoin merge)
+# I thought that setting the standard would disable the clang-tidy c++11 tips; nope.
+
+set(BOOST_ROOT "build/boost" CACHE PATH "Boost library path")
+set(Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS on CACHE BOOL "Do not search system for Boost")
+find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS filesystem program_options thread chrono) # locale coming shortly
+
+file(GLOB sources
+        src/*.h src/*.cpp
+        src/wallet/*.h src/wallet/*.cpp
+        src/support/*.h src/support/*.cpp src/support/allocators/*.h
+        src/script/*.h src/script/*.cpp
+        src/rpc/*.h src/rpc/*.cpp
+        src/primitives/*.h src/primitives/*.cpp
+        src/policy/*.h src/policy/*.cpp
+        src/crypto/*.h src/crypto/*.cpp
+        src/consensus/*.h src/consensus/*.cpp
+        src/compat/*.h src/compat/*.cpp
+    )
+list(FILTER sources EXCLUDE REGEX "src/bitcoin*.cpp$")
+
+include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+        build/bdb/include
+        build/libevent/include
+        build/openssl/include
+        src/support/allocators
+        src/support
+        src/rpc
+        src/policy
+        src/wallet src/script
+        src/leveldb/helpers/memenv
+        src/leveldb/include
+        src/config
+        src/crypto
+        src/compat
+        src/obj
+        src/univalue/include
+        src/secp256k1/include
+        src/
+    )
+
+add_compile_definitions(HAVE_CONFIG_H)
+
+add_executable(lbrycrd-cli src/bitcoin-cli.cpp ${sources})
+add_executable(lbrycrd-tx src/bitcoin-tx.cpp ${sources})
+add_executable(lbrycrdd src/bitcoind.cpp ${sources})
+
+file(GLOB tests src/test/*.cpp)
+foreach(test ${tests})
+    get_filename_component(filename ${test} NAME_WE)
+    add_executable(${filename} ${test} ${sources})
+    target_include_directories(${filename} PRIVATE src/test)
+endforeach(test)
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