Help Compiling Litecoin for Windows

[AlexMerced]

compile with USE_UPNP= at the end of compiling statement

will give that a shot when I get home today so basically your saying I should type into the command line the following

mingw32-make -f makefile.mingw USE_PNP=

correct

I got the same error, if I went into the source and commented out miniupnp.h would that be adviseable?

[Petr1fied]

I found commenting out this line worked:

Code:

USE_UPNP:=0

At least when it came to compiling the daemon anyway.

[Petr1fied]

OK figured out the correct way to resolve this issue by actually reading doc/build-msw.txt

Download this and extract to C:\deps

In a command prompt:

Code:

cd C:\deps\miniupnpc-1.8.20130503
mingw32-make -f Makefile.mingw
mkdir miniupnpc
copy *.h miniupnpc

In your alt coins src folder open makefile.mingw and change the miniupnpc part to this:

Code:

ifdef USE_UPNP
 INCLUDEPATHS += -I"C:\deps\miniupnpc-1.8.20130503"
 LIBPATHS += -L"C:\deps\miniupnpc-1.8.20130503"
 LIBS += -l miniupnpc -l iphlpapi
 DEFS += -DSTATICLIB -DUSE_UPNP=$(USE_UPNP)
endif

The daemon should compile without problems after that regardless of whether or not you add USE_PNP= to the build parameters. You can even remove the comment on the line I mentioned in my previous post (if you added it).

Still trying to figure out why I can't get the wallet to compile though.  

[JohnDorien]

Sorry i made a mistake it has to be USE_UPNP=

Sorry for the forgotten "u"

[Petr1fied]

damn, can't believe I didn't notice the lack of a U. That's copy and paste for you. I wondered why it didn't make a difference.

Still with the method I mentioned above you can compile with UPNP support if you want it.

[wiggi]

Another daemon compile error, "Building headless Bitcoin and Bitcoin-qt on Windows" says
 3.3 From a Windows command prompt run:
 cd C:\bitcoin\bitcoin-master\src
 mingw32-make -f makefile.mingw


That's ok for bitcoin-master, litecoin0.6.3c gives me this error:
make (e=5): Access is denied

But it works from MinGw/MSYS shell.

[AlexMerced]

Ok I successfully compiled the daemon, when I try to compile litecoin.exe here is what I get

[AlexMerced]

bump

[nocoin]

Obviously, you need db_cxx.h somewhere in include dir. It's from berkeley db, as I remember.

[defaced]

May i suggest using gitian and gitian-win32 on linux and crosscompile, you will thank me later.


There is updated files here

 https://github.com/franko-org/franko/tree/master/contrib/gitian-descriptors

[js2082]

this is the berkeley DB include file, put it in your -I path.

[AlexMerced]

May i suggest using gitian and gitian-win32 on linux and crosscompile, you will thank me later.


There is updated files here

 https://github.com/franko-org/franko/tree/master/contrib/gitian-descriptors

I appreciate that and I'll try that later on, I just know a lot of people have trouble doing this so I figured if I try to figure this out and document my efforts in this thread it'll help a lot of people down the road.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

I've compiled Bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt AND PPCoind directly under Windows and MinGW.

[AlexMerced]

I've compiled Bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt AND PPCoind directly under Windows and MinGW.

How about litecoin?

[worldspace]

i was able to compile bitcoin and litecoin but litecoin crashes at start