[ANN] EasyWinBuilder - The Easy Way to Build Bitcoin on Windows

[greyman]

Hello,
I would like to thanks the EasyWinBuilder creator, it's unbelievable that it works. ;-)

For a reference, this is what I did:

1. Clean install of Win7 x64 Professional to VMWare Player.
2. Unzip EasyWinBuilder to c:\bitcoin-0.8.5-EWB
3. start c:\bitcoin-0.8.5-EWB\contrib\easywinbuilder\__all_easywinbuilder.bat

BTW, might I ask, what steps should I do when I want to build other version of bitcoin src, or use this to build some altcoin? (Dogecoin for example). It is sufficient to just replace the src folder with another source file and recompile?

[Apocalipsis]

Hello,
I would like to thanks the EasyWinBuilder creator, it's unbelievable that it works. ;-)

For a reference, this is what I did:

1. Clean install of Win7 x64 Professional to VMWare Player.
2. Unzip EasyWinBuilder to c:\bitcoin-0.8.5-EWB
3. start c:\bitcoin-0.8.5-EWB\contrib\easywinbuilder\__all_easywinbuilder.bat

BTW, might I ask, what steps should I do when I want to build other version of bitcoin src, or use this to build some altcoin? (Dogecoin for example). It is sufficient to just replace the src folder with another source file and recompile?

You can build any altcoin that you want,BUT scrypt altcoins(litecoin,etc.),won't compile perfectly.(it's from my experience with compiling on EasyWinBuilder)

[greyman]

You can build any altcoin that you want,BUT scrypt altcoins(litecoin,etc.),won't compile perfectly.(it's from my experience with compiling on EasyWinBuilder)

So what is the proper way to build them on Windows, then?

[Apocalipsis]

You can build any altcoin that you want,BUT scrypt altcoins(litecoin,etc.),won't compile perfectly.(it's from my experience with compiling on EasyWinBuilder)

So what is the proper way to build them on Windows, then?

http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=scrypt_altcoin_cloning_guide&s[

[greyman]

You can build any altcoin that you want,BUT scrypt altcoins(litecoin,etc.),won't compile perfectly.(it's from my experience with compiling on EasyWinBuilder)

So what is the proper way to build them on Windows, then?

http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=scrypt_altcoin_cloning_guide&s[

Uff, seems I can start from scratch then, they even use other folder path to libraries....anyway, why this isn't a part of official documentation, it could speed up the development a lot.

[Apocalipsis]

You can build any altcoin that you want,BUT scrypt altcoins(litecoin,etc.),won't compile perfectly.(it's from my experience with compiling on EasyWinBuilder)

So what is the proper way to build them on Windows, then?

http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=scrypt_altcoin_cloning_guide&s[

Uff, seems I can start from scratch then, they even use other folder path to libraries....anyway, why this isn't a part of official documentation, it could speed up the development a lot.

Because nobody wants new forks)))

[phelix]

Hello,
I would like to thanks the EasyWinBuilder creator, it's unbelievable that it works. ;-)

For a reference, this is what I did:

1. Clean install of Win7 x64 Professional to VMWare Player.
2. Unzip EasyWinBuilder to c:\bitcoin-0.8.5-EWB
3. start c:\bitcoin-0.8.5-EWB\contrib\easywinbuilder\__all_easywinbuilder.bat

BTW, might I ask, what steps should I do when I want to build other version of bitcoin src, or use this to build some altcoin? (Dogecoin for example). It is sufficient to just replace the src folder with another source file and recompile?

You can build any altcoin that you want,BUT scrypt altcoins(litecoin,etc.),won't compile perfectly.(it's from my experience with compiling on EasyWinBuilder)

most scrypt coins work just fine. problem is some altcoin's makefiles / .pro files differ in a few places which needs some adjustment. Latest Litecoin might have some more problems, though.

[NilamDoc]

@templar77: probably the grumpycoin makefile.mingw is a little bit different from bitcoin/other altcoin so that it can not find the libs. compare it to bitcoin, could be you only need to replace a couple of "=" by "?="

I tried to compile bitcoin 0.8.5 using the EasyWinBuilder script on a fresh Windows 7 32 bit gave the same error as @templar77 got. I did not change any files from bitcoin src.

I changed the set_vars.bat
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw46-mt-1_54
 to
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw48-mt-1_54

It was able to build the bitcoind but failed to compile bitcoin-qt

[phelix]

@templar77: probably the grumpycoin makefile.mingw is a little bit different from bitcoin/other altcoin so that it can not find the libs. compare it to bitcoin, could be you only need to replace a couple of "=" by "?="

I tried to compile bitcoin 0.8.5 using the EasyWinBuilder script on a fresh Windows 7 32 bit gave the same error as @templar77 got. I did not change any files from bitcoin src.

What can be the reason?

post the whole output

[NilamDoc]

@templar77: probably the grumpycoin makefile.mingw is a little bit different from bitcoin/other altcoin so that it can not find the libs. compare it to bitcoin, could be you only need to replace a couple of "=" by "?="

I tried to compile bitcoin 0.8.5 using the EasyWinBuilder script on a fresh Windows 7 32 bit gave the same error as @templar77 got. I did not change any files from bitcoin src.

What can be the reason?

post the whole output

I changed the set_vars.bat
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw46-mt-1_54
 to
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw48-mt-1_54

It was able to build the bitcoind but failed to compile bitcoin-qt

[phelix]

@templar77: probably the grumpycoin makefile.mingw is a little bit different from bitcoin/other altcoin so that it can not find the libs. compare it to bitcoin, could be you only need to replace a couple of "=" by "?="

I tried to compile bitcoin 0.8.5 using the EasyWinBuilder script on a fresh Windows 7 32 bit gave the same error as @templar77 got. I did not change any files from bitcoin src.

What can be the reason?

post the whole output

I changed the set_vars.bat
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw46-mt-1_54
 to
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw48-mt-1_54

It was able to build the bitcoind but failed to compile bitcoin-qt

That could mean that you are using mingw gcc 4.8 which is bad.  try this on the msys shell (or command line):
>gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.6.2    // <--- this is what it should say

If it says something different then you got the wrong version of mingw installed...

[greyman]

That could mean that you are using mingw gcc 4.8 which is bad.  try this on the msys shell (or command line):
>gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.6.2    // <--- this is what it should say

If it says something different then you got the wrong version of mingw installed...

Yes I also have this experience, I had installed 4.8 before, and it didn't compile. But what causes this incompatibility of the newer version?

[phelix]

That could mean that you are using mingw gcc 4.8 which is bad.  try this on the msys shell (or command line):
>gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.6.2    // <--- this is what it should say

If it says something different then you got the wrong version of mingw installed...

Yes I also have this experience, I had installed 4.8 before, and it didn't compile. But what causes this incompatibility of the newer version?

IIRC:
1. Everything (including all libs) needs to be compiled with the same version
2. Some parts don't compile well with 4.8

[NilamDoc]

That could mean that you are using mingw gcc 4.8 which is bad.  try this on the msys shell (or command line):
>gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.6.2    // <--- this is what it should say

If it says something different then you got the wrong version of mingw installed...

Yes I also have this experience, I had installed 4.8 before, and it didn't compile. But what causes this incompatibility of the newer version?

IIRC:
1. Everything (including all libs) needs to be compiled with the same version
2. Some parts don't compile well with 4.8

After download mingw, I had installed the gcc from the ming menu, which I should not do. I am trying to run the batch file again and check for compile.

I was able to compile both bitcond and bitcoin-qt with a fresh windows 7 x64 version and the script.
https://github.com/phelixbtc/bitcoin/archive/0.8.5-EWB.zip

Excellent work!

[GeorgeL]

Nice tutorial. Perfect work from Phelix.

But still not working for me on my test alt coin.

Can I find here someone who can help me to compile EXE wallet (later MAC and LINUX).

I offer reward in MECs. How about 50 MECs for each wallet?

Thank you and PM me please.

Ich spreche auch Deutsch.

[teamhulvat]

Hi to you all, firstly I want to thanx a lot to help our 3days torturing of compiling qt 
we are almost at the end of it, but our bitcoin-qt.exe wont launch, it just says "program bitcoin-qt.exe stopped working"

To make it work we had to change following first, to overcome ERROR:

I changed the set_vars.bat
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw46-mt-1_54
 to
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw48-mt-1_54

changed 46 to 48, then procces continued further and both files were created succesfully

OK so heres what we got now:
bitcoind.exe is working fine
but bitcoin-qt.exe stops as said above

any idea?

thanks a lot

[phelix]

Hi to you all, firstly I want to thanx a lot to help our 3days torturing of compiling qt 
we are almost at the end of it, but our bitcoin-qt.exe wont launch, it just says "program bitcoin-qt.exe stopped working"

To make it work we had to change following first, to overcome ERROR:

I changed the set_vars.bat
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw46-mt-1_54
 to
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw48-mt-1_54

changed 46 to 48, then procces continued further and both files were created succesfully

OK so heres what we got now:
bitcoind.exe is working fine
but bitcoin-qt.exe stops as said above

any idea?

thanks a lot

you got the wrong version of mingw installed. It won't work with mingw 4.8, you need 4.6

[phelix]

There seems to be an issue that leveldb is being compiled without proper multithreading support....  maybe this is causing the crashes on litecoin and some other altcoins. I will try to find the time to take a look at it.

[teamhulvat]

Hi to you all, firstly I want to thanx a lot to help our 3days torturing of compiling qt 
we are almost at the end of it, but our bitcoin-qt.exe wont launch, it just says "program bitcoin-qt.exe stopped working"

To make it work we had to change following first, to overcome ERROR:

I changed the set_vars.bat
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw46-mt-1_54
 to
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw48-mt-1_54

changed 46 to 48, then procces continued further and both files were created succesfully

OK so heres what we got now:
bitcoind.exe is working fine
but bitcoin-qt.exe stops as said above

any idea?

thanks a lot

you got the wrong version of mingw installed. It won't work with mingw 4.8, you need 4.6

Ok i want to try uninstall mingw 48 and after that instal mingw 46 but now i have an error on building deamon: libwinpthread-1.dll is mising

I thing the best way will be new clear windows instalation and next try to do everything again.

But i´m not sure how to install mingw 46, if i download installer, it want automaticly install mingw 48. Can you help me how to do it?

Thank you a lot :-)

[phelix]

Hi to you all, firstly I want to thanx a lot to help our 3days torturing of compiling qt 
we are almost at the end of it, but our bitcoin-qt.exe wont launch, it just says "program bitcoin-qt.exe stopped working"

To make it work we had to change following first, to overcome ERROR:

I changed the set_vars.bat
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw46-mt-1_54
 to
@set BOOSTSUFFIX=-mgw48-mt-1_54

changed 46 to 48, then procces continued further and both files were created succesfully

OK so heres what we got now:
bitcoind.exe is working fine
but bitcoin-qt.exe stops as said above

any idea?

thanks a lot

you got the wrong version of mingw installed. It won't work with mingw 4.8, you need 4.6

Ok i want to try uninstall mingw 48 and after that instal mingw 46 but now i have an error on building deamon: libwinpthread-1.dll is mising

I thing the best way will be new clear windows instalation and next try to do everything again.

But i´m not sure how to install mingw 46, if i download installer, it want automaticly install mingw 48. Can you help me how to do it?

Thank you a lot :-)

on the second window of the installer you must deactivate the checkbox (as it says in the text in the cmd box)