If they we just compiled libbitcoin binaries for Windows devs they we would see an explosion of applications for bitcoin on Windows. You won't get Windows devs looking at bitcoin software until you we supply these binaries in the same way people do for OpenSSL or SQLite. Then you we would see header translations and workspaces for Codeblocks, Lazarus and Visual Studio.
We I am not going to go through 500 pages of Linux speak, install Linux or a Linux emulator/VM and search far and wide for esoteric packages that noone has ever heard of just to compile your that library, which will probably be unsuccessful after 2 days of getting it set up because you it already had a dependency that you they didn't notice!
FTFYWindows devs are often careless enough to compile stuff with hidden backdoors (at least I was until a few years ago), and using precompiled binaries as suggested invites that. However, just as the Windows Satoshi client has signatures from core devs, libbitcoin binaries could do the same thing, so it's a minor problem... at least if the signing developers have a reputation to protect.
My videos show how easy it is to build the four static libraries from source, for bitcoind (and other *coins). I actually built two of them in the videos and show how easy it is to build the other two.
Ron
Interesting stuff
), I tried windows 8.1. And after the first try it was already done. Very happy with this 
