WINCOMPILE.md

Compile xmr-stak for Windows

Install Dependencies

Preparation

• open a command line cmd
• run mkdir C:\xmr-stak-dep

Visual Studio 2017 Community

• download VS2017 Community and install from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
• during the install chose the components
  • Desktop development with C++ (left side)
  • Toolset for Visual Studio C++ 2015.3 v140... (right side)

CMake for Win64

• download and install the latest version from https://cmake.org/download/
• tested version: cmake 3.9
• during the install choose the option Add CMake to the system PATH for all users

OpenSSL for Win64

• download and install the precompiled binary form https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
• tested version: OpenSSL 1.0.2L

Hwloc for Win64

• download the precompiled binary from https://www.open-mpi.org/software/hwloc/v1.11/
• tested version: hwloc-win64-build-1.11.7
• unzip hwloc to C:\xmr-stak-dep

Microhttpd for Win32

• download the precompiled binary from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libmicrohttpd/
• tested version: libmicrohttpd-0.9.55-w32-bin
• unzip microhttpd to ``C:\xmr-stak-dep`

Validate the Dependency Folder

• open a command line cmd
• run

  cd c:\xmr-stak-dep
  tree .
  

• the result should have the same structure

    C:\XMR-STAK-DEP
    ├───hwloc-win64-build-1.11.7
    │   ├───bin
    │   ├───include
    │   │   └───hwloc
    │   │       └───autogen
    │   ├───lib
    │   │   └───pkgconfig
    │   └───share
    │       ├───doc
    │       │   └───hwloc
    │       ├───hwloc
    │       └───man
    │           ├───man1
    │           ├───man3
    │           └───man7
    └───libmicrohttpd-0.9.55-w32-bin
        ├───x86
        │   ├───MinGW
        │   │   ├───shared
        │   │   │   └───mingw32
        │   │   │       ├───bin
        │   │   │       ├───include
        │   │   │       └───lib
        │   │   │           └───pkgconfig
        │   │   ├───shared-xp
        │   │   │   └───mingw32
        │   │   │       ├───bin
        │   │   │       ├───include
        │   │   │       └───lib
        │   │   │           └───pkgconfig
        │   │   ├───static
        │   │   │   └───mingw32
        │   │   │       ├───include
        │   │   │       └───lib
        │   │   │           └───pkgconfig
        │   │   └───static-xp
        │   │       └───mingw32
        │   │           ├───include
        │   │           └───lib
        │   │               └───pkgconfig
        │   ├───VS2013
        │   │   ├───Release-dll
        │   │   ├───Release-dll-xp
        │   │   ├───Release-static
        │   │   └───Release-static-xp
        │   ├───VS2015
        │   │   ├───Debug-dll
        │   │   ├───Debug-dll-xp
        │   │   ├───Debug-static
        │   │   ├───Debug-static-xp
        │   │   ├───Release-dll
        │   │   ├───Release-dll-xp
        │   │   ├───Release-static
        │   │   └───Release-static-xp
        │   └───VS2017
        │       ├───Debug-dll
        │       ├───Debug-static
        │       ├───Release-dll
        │       └───Release-static
        └───x86_64
            ├───MinGW
            │   ├───shared
            │   │   └───mingw64
            │   │       ├───bin
            │   │       ├───include
            │   │       └───lib
            │   │           └───pkgconfig
            │   └───static
            │       └───mingw64
            │           ├───include
            │           └───lib
            │               └───pkgconfig
            ├───VS2013
            │   ├───Release-dll
            │   └───Release-static
            ├───VS2015
            │   ├───Debug-dll
            │   ├───Debug-static
            │   ├───Release-dll
            │   └───Release-static
            └───VS2017
                ├───Debug-dll
                ├───Debug-static
                ├───Release-dll
                └───Release-static
  

Compile

• download and unzip xmr-stak-cpu
• open a command line cmd
• cd to your unzipped source code directory
• execute the following commands (NOTE: path to VS2017 can be different)

  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\VsMSBuildCmd.bat"
  set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\xmr-stak-dep\hwloc-win64-build-1.11.7;C:\xmr-stak-dep\libmicrohttpd-0.9.55-w32-bin\x86_64\VS2017\Release-static
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -T v141,host=x64 ..
  msbuild xmr-stak-cpu.sln /p:Configuration=Release
  cd bin\Release
  copy C:\xmr-stak-dep\hwloc-win64-build-1.11.7\bin\libhwloc-5.dll .
  copy ..\..\..\config.txt .
  

• customize your config.txt file by adding the pool, username and password