Topic: Building headless Bitcoin and Bitcoin-qt on Windows - page 14. (Read 419389 times)

Edit: I successfully compiled bitcoin/master today, and here is what I learned:


In the MSYS shell, /usr and / are the same, and the folder called /usr (and /) in that shell is actually C:\MinGW\msys\1.0.

I did some simple testing:

Given that, I used a solution from StackExchange:
in the bitcoin directory and that avoided the PKG_... errors during the execution of ./configure.

Cheers cinnamon_carter, your guide on cryptocointalk helped me a lot recently

I will try that tonight when I get home from work. Non static wallets work, but give me an exit error (I thought that was a known issue for "older" coins?)

I forgot to say I already used a lot of different versions to compile though

mingw46/mingw49
QT 4.8.6/QT4.8.6 (static compile)/QT4.8.4/QT4.8.4 (static compile)
Boost 157/boost 155/boost 153 / I even tried with 154 which sucks lol
Installed all deps about 2x myself
Found and downloaded FooCoin-deps (outdated)
Found and downloaded CloneCoin-deps(These give me the error I guess, they are compiled with mingw49 I think)

Really annoying that you cant compile static if your boost for instance is compiled with some other version of mingw then the rest of the deps. sighs

I also tried crosscompiling with gitian, I found out that is definetly out of my leaque without a decent gitian compile for dummies guide.

Crosscompile on Ubuntu with /mxe/.../user/...../qmake created a static wallet for me, but I cant open it at all

As you can see I tried about 90% of the available options. and that explains how much time I lost already with recompiling all this stuff over and over again  


I will try a fresh install of deps again and try it with mingw46 and QT 4.8.5.

I also tried to compile bitcoinQT which gives me the same error when static build, So I guess it is something with my deps folder/mingw/qt lol

To be continued  



EDIT: Just have to say this is pretty hard for a non-coder   But I will not give up! I dont want to be dependent on releases anymore, I want to compile the wallets myself Linux is no problem but windows is a real pain in the ass


I found something other in the litecoin.pro which confuses me.
https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master-0.8/bitcoin-qt.pro#L107-L115

Which line do I comment out? I tried commenting out both, and one at a time. Not commenting out line 115 gives the compile error as expected. Commenting out both lines compiles. Commenting out line 115 but not 108 compiles too... (sorry if this may sound confusing) I doubt this is my problem though, since I had the same error with running bitcoin-qt

Well my apologies. 5 minutes after posting this I figured it out. Based on this, I figured out that I needed to add this line to my Makefile.Release generated by qmake.

If i may, let me make a few suggestions to build a windows qt for litecoin and litecoind

I find it much easier using mingw46, boost 1_55_0 , qt open source everywhere 4.8.5  and the recent qr builds along with the latest open ssl 1.0.2a

In fact just now i figured i would try it just to make sure it works and it compiled in about 7 minutes on the first lick.

I added to line 11 in the .pro file of litecoin since it is empty the line below.

CONFIG += static

and on line 51 here a -static at the end of the line

https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/blob/master-0.8/bitcoin-qt.pro#L51

should look like this (line 88 in my coin Photon)

https://github.com/photonproject/photon/blob/master/Photon-qt.pro#L88

This is a little off topic, my apology to Nitrogenetics and all who are looking to build bitcoin but I realize many of the questions asked here in particular about older build tools are being asked to compile alt coins not necessarly the topic of this awesome thread--- the latest bitcoin build !

If you need some help or links to additional items you cannot find here on the forum on on stack exchange, shoot me a pm and I can direct you to some resources that outline Nitrogenetics 'older' now 'out of date' tutorials.....  cheers...

Note this built a static litecoin wallet for me, if you want a non static, even easier preparing your build system and you work from a qt command prompt and do not need to set path vs. for static build use windows prompt and set the path for the qt you are building with. Build the command line daemon from a msys shell with makefile.mingw....(adjusting paths before building as necessary) .  Also remember to compile leveldb before you try to build the wallet as instructed on the first page of this post....

Hope this helps you and others .... let's try to stay on topic here , I don't want to upset the  man who has through his various chages to this post over time taught me a lot !!  NITROGENETICS IS THE MAN

I'm having an issue compiling an alt qt. From what I can tell, this is an issue with building a static/shared dependency miniupnpc. For the life of me I can't get past this error though no matter what I try.

Things I've tried;

• Compile shared and static miniupnpc with  mingw32-make makefile.mingw upnpc-shared/static
• Tried disabling miniupnpc by qmake use_upnp=-
• Tried grabbing an old version of miniupnpc and using that
• Successfully built Bitcoind and Bitcoin-QT to make sure all deps were good

Here is the error.

Any suggestions or guidance would be much appreciated.

Hi

I have a problem compiling litecoin on windows 7 64bit

I downloaded the latest litecoin source
Changed the .pro as it should be for windows

I first compiled non-static, which causes an error at shut down of the QT (Is there a fix for this btw?)

After a long and stressfull week (actually it is more then 1 week ) fighting with installation files I finally compiled a static wallet.

I use QT 4.8.6 opensource everywhere version
mingw49
boost 1_55_0
and the rest of course

The compile itself is not giving me any errors what so ever. I see a nicely build ~21mb litecoin-qt.exe in my release folder. BUT! when I want to open the qt, it doenst even load the splash image of litecoin. Instead it instantly gives me this warning

Dutch windows


I dont see a litecoin folder in roaming either  So it appears it is not even trying to do something 

Any advice ?

Cheers,

Banzai

Either installing pkg-config-lite with or copying pkg.m4 from source package to aclocal folder will work. Just make sure it gets installed to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\share\aclocal\pkg.m4

As an additional option you can switch to msys2.

I'll try to do my best to get the op updated asap.

What's the minimum recommanded system for Bitcoin-qt on windows , I have an old computer and thinking to
made a cloud wallet from it   .

Respects ,
Xin Ming .

"It seems it would probably be a better option to install pkg-config:"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/files/0.28-1/pkg-config-lite-0.28-1.tar.gz/download
configure --prefix=/mingw32 && make && make install

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 or just..my easy solution, copy paste


i had pkg installed earlier as i did it with gpuminer. (copy paste bin/share folders)
now installed pkg again as you told above and now there is one error line less..
 but still this:

./configure: line 21247: syntax error near unexpected token `QTPLATFORM,'
./configure: line 21247: `        PKG_CHECK_MODULES(QTPLATFORM, Qt5PlatformSuppo
rt, QT_LIBS="$QTPLATFORM_LIBS $QT_LIBS")'

edit, solved
to mingw32 folder:
************************
** Install pkg-config **
************************
1. Visit http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
2. Search for a version of pkg-config that includes both the Tool and Dev downloads
3. Click and download both the Tool link and the Dev link
4. Open the pkg-config zip file and extract the bin folder to C:\mingw32
5. Open the pkg-config-dev zip file and extract the share folder to C:\mingw32

Copying pkg.m4 to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\share\aclocal (or whatever your msys install folder is) should fix it.


This is not necessary. In a properly configured environment you will have no C:\MinGW\mingw32\bin folder and C:\MinGW\bin will just contain mingw-get executable.

I removed from mingw32, copied manually lite to msys, and configure worked (after a couple of tries, threading problem maybe). Thanks for the hint, it's compiling!

It is hard to think of what might be the case. I can tell you that I had pkg-config installed and giving me the right version as well and it was still not working. I then removed it and installed JUST pkg-config-lite in msys, reran autogen.sh, closed all open cmd/msys windows, and then it worked. Also make sure the mingw, and toolchain bin paths are BOTH in your PATH variable(for me, C:\MinGW\bin and C:\MinGW\mingw32\bin), although im sure if you got this far already they likely are.

I tried copying the files from pkg-config dev/tool, compiled/installed pkg-config-lite, reran autogen.sh, started another msys, rebooted even, but still configure gives me this error (0.10.1rc3).  Is it possible there's an environment variable missing (like qtplatform_libs or something)?

Running pkg-config gives me the right version number so I'm assuming it's installed correctly.  Any suggestions? Thanks.

unfortunately i have never used the Bitcoin Qt does anyone know if it really works

yes,building bitcoin.Perl64 already installed but compiling find some errors .

Why not?

Are you building qt 5.3.0 opensource like this?? , you need both qtbase and qttools



set INCLUDE=C:\deps\libpng-1.6.16;C:\deps\openssl-1.0.2a\include
set LIB=C:\deps\libpng-1.6.16\.libs;C:\deps\openssl-1.0.2a

cd C:\Qt\5.3.0
configure.bat -release -opensource -confirm-license -static -make libs -no-sql-sqlite -no-opengl -system-zlib -qt-pcre -no-icu -no-gif -system-libpng -no-libjpeg -no-freetype -no-angle -no-vcproj -openssl-linked -no-dbus -no-audio-backend -no-wmf-backend -no-qml-debug

mingw32-make

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Qt\5.3.0\bin

cd C:\Qt\qttools-opensource-src-5.3.0
qmake qttools.pro
mingw32-make


.............. if you are building bitcoin I never tried but would not recommend qt 5.3.0 , unless back on bitcoin client 9.1 or 9.2

when to compile qttools-opensource:
how to fix it?

Some of the items in the guide (you mean OP, right?) indicate to use Windows cmd, and some to use MinGW shell, but it doesn't mention using qt cmd.  I think qt cmd might be a Windows cmd with some extra environment variables, but the MinGW shell has a lot more than that.

I only saw your output of the mingw-make error.  The way you got around the lib problem might be related to the mingw-make problem.  Since I complied bitcoind and bitcoinQT together, I didn't have to rebuild leveldb, so my experience might be useless to you.  I am curious how mingw-make chooses what interpreter to use when it issues that command line with the CC in it.

Nitro has been updating OP, so there might be some bad advice elsewhere in the thread that tripped you up if you read through it all.  When I realized that, I skipped everything up to the last post he made in which he indicated that he was updating OP.

like i said

I've Try'd
Building libleveldb.a libmemenv.a from scratch over several times
try'd using libleveldb.a libmemenv.a from diff coin sources
try'd windows cmd & qt cmd
try'd multiple versions of mingw, msys, Qt
try'd editing bitcoin-qt.pro and makefile.mingw
added to PATH
added to folder's ie qt, mingw etc


I've followed the guide exactly how it is.

gonna do the setup i had earlier if i can remember what i installed as that got me past the lib problem which i'm now stuck with again. an the other error was for mingw32 make error for releasing bitcoin-qt.exe


THANKYOU FOR THE INPUT THO.

36hrs on it straight why i have not succeeded i don't know