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Compile xmr-stak for Windows

Install Dependencies

Preparation

  • open a command line cmd
  • run mkdir C:\xmr-stak-dep

Visual Studio 2017 Community

  • download VS2017 Community and install from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
  • during the install chose the components
    • Desktop development with C++ (left side)
    • Toolset for Visual Studio C++ 2015.3 v140... (right side)

CMake for Win64

  • download and install the latest version from https://cmake.org/download/
  • tested version: cmake 3.9
  • during the install choose the option Add CMake to the system PATH for all users

Dependencies OpenSSL/Hwloc and Microhttpd

Validate the Dependency Folder

  • open a command line cmd
  • run
    cd c:\xmr-stak-dep
    tree .
    
  • the result should have the same structure
      C:\xmr-stak-dep>tree .
      Folder PATH listing for volume Windows
      Volume serial number is XX02-XXXX
      C:\XMR-STAK-DEP
      ├───hwloc
      │   ├───include
      │   │   ├───hwloc
      │   │   │   └───autogen
      │   │   └───private
      │   │       └───autogen
      │   └───lib
      ├───libmicrohttpd
      │   ├───include
      │   └───lib
      └───openssl
          ├───bin
          ├───include
          │   └───openssl
          └───lib
    

Compile

  • download and unzip xmr-stak-cpu
  • open the command line terminal cmd
  • cd to your unzipped source code directory
  • execute the following commands (NOTE: path to VS2017 can be different)
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\VsMSBuildCmd.bat"
    set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\xmr-stak-dep\hwloc;C:\xmr-stak-dep\libmicrohttpd;C:\xmr-stak-dep\openssl
    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -T v141,host=x64 ..
    msbuild xmr-stak-cpu.sln /p:Configuration=Release
    cd bin\Release
    copy ..\..\..\config.txt .
    
  • customize your config.txt file by adding the pool, username and password