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Title: Building bitcoin-qt on windows
Post by: grue on January 28, 2012, 06:15:00 PM

Can't get it to work ???
https://i.imgur.com/B9OeZ.png

what i did:

downloaded and installed http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-windows-cpp
extracted https://download.visucore.com/bitcoin/qtgui_deps_1.zip to mingw
opened .pro file in qt creator. tried to build, was missing some boost files
downloaded http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.48.0/boost_1_48_0.7z/download and extracted to mingw's include directory, NOT replacing any files

Title: Re: Building bitcoin-qt on windows
Post by: Costia on January 28, 2012, 06:29:15 PM

it cant find lib ole32
could be several reasons (like not there at all, different file name, wrong version)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60014.0

Title: Re: Building bitcoin-qt on windows
Post by: Joric on January 28, 2012, 08:11:59 PM

bitcoin-qt.pro:272
-windows:LIBS += -lws2_32 -lshlwapi
+windows:LIBS += -lws2_32 -lshlwapi -lole32 -luuid

Title: Re: Building bitcoin-qt on windows
Post by: Costia on January 28, 2012, 09:02:00 PM

compiled bot the gui and daemon
they crash unless i give them a different data dir
then they start downloading the blockchain