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As this post is going to make quite obvious, I'm a Windows user/programmer and am totally a n00b to Unix. If folks have good compilation instructions for Bitcoin-QT on Windows I'd be very grateful, but for now I'm attempting to get up and running with Unix.

I'm trying to build Bitoin-QT in Gentoo but keep meeting errors. I tried first to just do the obvious:

     sudo emerge bitcoin-qt

This complains telling me I need to add USE -bindist, so I:

     sudo vi /etc/make.conf

and added -bindist to USE... then I tried:

     sudo emerge bitcoin-qt

again - but it complains that there are duplicate libraries... so then I decided to RTFM and saw that the github project recommends:

     layman -a bitcoin && emerge bitcoind
     emerge -av1 --noreplace boost glib openssl sys-libs/db:4.8

So I did this - only "emerge bitcoind" then complains that "(dependency required net-p2p/bitcoind-0.8.1" [ebuild])" and "(dependency required by "bitcoind" [argument])"

Now "emerge bitcoin-qt" is essentially complaining about that as well rather than about the duplicate libraries, which I guess is progress? :) - anyhow a bit stuck at this point, any idea how I address this dependency issue and get to the next step?

Thanks!

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