Hey, I'm the guy making the current windows builds.
The rational of the current builds is that I’m including the full debugging symbols, and linking against the development version of the libraries.
This will make finding bugs on windows far easier. However in the future I will put more effort into making ‘release’ windows builds.
I can foresee at least 4 dependencies for the medium term, even with ‘release’ mode:
1. MSVC 2008 (for OpenSSL)
2. OpenSSL
3. MSVC2010 SP1 (for Open Transactions)
4. Java (for Moneychanger)
Of-course it should be possible to automate the install of the above mentioned dependencies, however this is not my development focus at the moment.
It would be great for another developer to offer their time and experience to build such an install system. Else, I will get around to it, and just let people ‘suck it up’ with my debugging builds.
No Windows user is ever going to do the above steps.
It's okay though, because by the time the Windows installer does come around, OT will be basically ready for it.
I'm willing to pitch in 5 BTC towards this effort -- where do I send the funds for escrow?
Perhaps a smart contract should be designed for this, and we can execute it up on knotwork's OT server, and let it manage the money for us.
-FT