- open a command line
cmd
- run
mkdir C:\xmr-stak-dep
- 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)
- 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
- download the precompiled binary from https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-dep/releases/download/v1/xmr-stak-dep.zip
- unzip all to
C:\xmr-stak-dep
- 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
- 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