...or we could just download it gratis from http://cryptomining-blog.com/wp-content/files/cgminer-3-7-3-heavycoin-windows.zip instead...

I just want to suggest instead
use:
and the same with git and autotools (libtool will be installed as dependency to this moment)

can minerd for HVC be compilled and work on freebsd?

cd /usr/ports/ftp/curl
make install clean BATCH=yes
cd /usr/ports/devel/git
make install clean BATCH=yes
cd /usr/ports/devel/autotools
make install clean BATCH=yes
cd /usr/ports/devel/libtool
make install clean BATCH=yes

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/1gh/cpuminer-heavycoin 1gh-hvc-cpuminer
cd 1gh-hvc-cpuminer
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native"
make

./minerd -a heavy -v 512 -o stratum+tcp://hvcpool.1gh.com:5333 -u WALLET -p x

what's the difference -v 512 and -v 1024?

How it works

Intially Heavycoin starts with a zero block reward. The very first miners will have the first opportunity to solve blocks and vote on what the first democratically selected block reward should be. The first 100 blocks (3.3 hours) will decide the starting block reward. From then on, block reward voting will continue, but the votes are counted and averaged every 3600 blocks (5 days).

Heavycoin is configured to mine and vote by default, with a default vote of 512 HVC. If you want to change your block reward vote then see How to vote and RPC voting. Otherwise, to disable voting then see How to mine. When mining is enabled, every time you mine a block your wallet will automatically cast a block reward vote. The Heavycoin network automatically averages these votes every 5 days (3600 blocks) and sets the new block reward accordingly. The block reward is the average of all 3600 votes over the previous voting period rounded to the nearest integer.

by change from 1024 with the word VOTE i don't receive any warning any more, but there are not accepted blocks, 0/25 (0.00%) 35.10 khash/s (boooo) no (yaaa)

what could be the problem?

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libtool autoconf build-essential 
git clone https://github.com/1gh/cpuminer-heavycoin 1ghminer
cd 1ghminer
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
(or ./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native" for the best performance)
make
./minerd -a heavy -v 512 -o stratum+tcp://hvcpool.1gh.com:5333 -u WALLET -p x

Fixed it by adding these 2 lines to configure.ac:

Now it is mining but i have only rejected ones + Warning: Your block reward vote (1024) exceeds the maxvote reported by the pool (0).

Any one with the same problem?

./minerd -a heavy -v VOTE -o stratum+tcp://hvcpool.1gh.com:5333 -u WALLET -p x

Turns out I downloaded the wrong Minred

    1gh miner conked out again just after I got into work this morning so no coin for me today, wtf! It seems to give me one coin then it crashes, I'm going to have to babysit this mo'fo all night. Spent two days getting the cpu miner to work using instructions Bletchley Park couldn't figure out and then I find people are already GPU mining!