Topic: installing bfgminer on windows via mingw (Read 84 times)

thanks. I know what is ASIC mining. but I want to do mining with PC foe another purpose

What is your main reason why you want to make bfgminer work?

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Then read this below if you decided to mine Bitcoin with ASIC machines.

- First time/Small miner reference for getting started.

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- Current List of Competitive Hardware

i am a beginner.
I am trying to install bfgminer on windows 64bit through mingw but I encountered some problems

I am doing this through the following manual:

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** Install MinGW **
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1.  Go to https://sourceforge.net/downloads/mingw
2.  Download and execute mingw-get-setup.exe
3.  Complete the installation wizard leaving default values

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** Configure MinGW **
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1.  Launch the MinGW Installation Manager
2.  Select Basic Setup on the left
3.  Mark the following packages for installation: mingw-developer-toolkit, mingw32-base, mingw-gcc-g++, and msys-base
4.  Select All Packages on the left
5.  Mark the following packages for installation: mingw32-pthreads-w32 (dev), mingw32-libpdcurses (dev), mingw32-pdcurses (bin), msys-libopenssl (dev)
6.  Click Installation > Apply Changes
7.  Click Apply
8.  Wait...
9.  Click Close
10. Close MinGW Installation Manager

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** MinGW Post-Install **
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1.  Check your Start menu for “MinGW Shell”
2.  If the shortcut exists, continue to the next section, otherwise:
3.  Navigate to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\postinstall
4.  Run pi.bat & answer the questions
5.  Navigate to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0
6.  Right-click msys.bat and click Copy
7.  Click the Start button
8.  Right-click All Programs and click Open
9.  Right-click on the opened folder and click “Paste shortcut”
10. Right-click the new shortcut and click Properties
11. On the General tab, rename the shortcut to “MinGW Shell”
12. On the Shortcut tab, change Start in to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
13. Click OK

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** Install YASM (optional - CPU mining) **
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1.  Visit http://yasm.tortall.net/Download.html
2.  Download the Win32 or Win64 .exe, depending on your version of Windows
3.  Rename the downloaded executable to yasm.exe
4.  Copy the executable to C:\MinGW\bin

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** Install uthash **
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1.  Visit http://troydhanson.github.io/uthash/
2.  Download the uthash-master.zip file
3.  Extract the contents of the uthash-master/src folder into C:\MinGW\include

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** Install GTK+ for Windows **
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1.  Visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/
2.  Download and execute the gtk2-runtime installer
3.  Complete the installation wizard leaving default values
4.  Copy libglib-2.0-0.dll from C:\Program Files\GTK2-Runtime\bin to C:\MinGW\bin

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** Install pkg-config **
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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:\MinGW
5.  Open the pkg-config-dev zip file and extract the share folder to C:\MinGW

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** Install libcurl **
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1.  Visit http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32
2.  Look for the Win32 - Generic heading
3.  Download the link that indicates both *libcurl* (not just binary) and *SSL*
4.  Open the zip file and extract the lib, include, and bin folders to C:\MinGW
5.  Edit C:\MinGW\lib\pkgconfig\libcurl.pc
6.  Change "-lcurl" to "-lcurl -lcurldll"

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** Install libjansson **
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1.  Visit http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/
2.  Download the latest .tar.gz file (not doc.tar.gz)
3.  Open the .tar.gz file and extract the jansson folder to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER (where USER is your user name)
4.  Click Start and launch MinGW Shell
5.  Type the following (replace X.X with actual version):

   cd ~/jansson-X.X
   ./configure --prefix=/MinGW
   make
   make check
   make install

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** Install libusb **
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1.  Visit http://git.libusb.org/?p=libusb.git;a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip
2.  Download and open the resulting zip file
3.  Extract the libusb-master folder to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER
4.  Return to the MinGW Shell
5.  Type the following (replace XYZ with actual identifier):

   cd ~/libusb-master-XYZ
   ./autogen.sh --disable-debug-log --prefix=/MinGW
   make
   make install

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** Install libmicrohttpd (optional - Stratum Proxy) **
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1.  Visit http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libmicrohttpd/
2.  Download the latest w32.zip file
3.  Open the zip file and extract the share, lib, include, and bin folders to C:\MinGW

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** Install libevent (optional - Stratum Proxy) **
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1.  Visit http://libevent.org/
2.  Download the latest stable.tar.gz file
3.  Open the .tar.gz file and extract the libevent-X.Y.Z-stable folder to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER
4.  Return to the MinGW Shell
5.  Type the following (replace X.Y.Z with actual version):

   cd ~/libevent-X.Y.Z-stable
   ./configure --disable-openssl --prefix=/MinGW
   make
   make install

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** Install HIDAPI (optional - Hashbuster & Nanofury) **
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1.  Visit https://github.com/signal11/hidapi
2.  Click Releases and download the latest zip file
3.  Open the zip file and extract the hidapi-hidapi folder to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER
4.  Return to the MinGW Shell
5.  Type the following (replace X.Y.Z with actual version):

   cd ~/hidapi-hidapi-X.Y.Z
   ./bootstrap
   ./configure --prefix=/MinGW
   make
   make install

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** Install Git **
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1.  Visit http://git-scm.com/downloads
2.  Click the Download for Windows
3.  Run the resulting installer once downloaded
4.  Complete the installation wizard leaving default values

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** Configure Git in MinGW **
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1.  Navigate to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER
2.  Create a new text file with Notepad called profile.txt with the contents:

PATH=$PATH:/c/Program\ Files/Git/bin

3.  Return to the MinGW Shell
4.  Type the following:

   mv ~/profile.txt ~/.profile

5.  Restart the MinGW Shell

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** OS Header(s) **
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1.  Navigate to C:\MinGW\include
2.  Use Notepad to create a new file called mstcpip.h (not .txt) with the contents:

struct tcp_keepalive
{
    u_long onoff;
    u_long keepalivetime;
    u_long keepaliveinterval;
};

#ifndef USE_WS_PREFIX

#define SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS    _WSAIOW(IOC_VENDOR, 4)

#else

#define WS_SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS    _WSAIOW(WS_IOC_VENDOR, 4)

#endif

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** Compile bfgminer **
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1.  Return to the MinGW Shell
2.  Type the following:

   cd ~/
   git clone git://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer.git
   cd bfgminer/
   ./autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make

* Note: see the README for bfgminer ./configure options

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** Package Binaries **
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Create a new folder anywhere and copy the following items there:

C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER\bfgminer

   bfgminer.exe
   bfgminer-rpc.exe
   COPYING
   LICENSE
   README*

C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER\bfgminer\opencl

   *.cl

C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER\bfgminer\libbase58\.libs

   libbase58-0.dll

C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\USER\bfgminer\libblkmaker\.libs 

   libblkmaker-0.1-6.dll
   libblkmaker_jansson-0.1-6.dll

C:\MinGW\bin

   libcurl.dll
   libjansson-4.dll
   libmicrohttpd-10.dll
   libpdcursesw.dll
   pthreadGC2.dll
   libusb-1.0.dll
   libidn-11.dll
   libeay32.dll
   ssleay32.dll
   libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
   libgnutls-28.dll
   libgcrypt-11.dll
   libplibc-1.dll
   libgmp.dll
   libintl-8.dll
   libgpg-error-0.dll
   libiconv-2.dll
   libevent-2-0-5.dll
   zlib1.dll



I did step by step until I got to the section Installing "Install libcurl"

*********************
** Install libcurl **
*********************

1.  Visit http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32
2.  Look for the Win32 - Generic heading
3.  Download the link that indicates both *libcurl* (not just binary) and *SSL*
4.  Open the zip file and extract the lib, include, and bin folders to C:\MinGW
5.  Edit C:\MinGW\lib\pkgconfig\libcurl.pc
6.  Change "-lcurl" to "-lcurl -lcurldll"

I searched the Internet but I couldnot find download link that satisfy the above . I mean I couldnot find libcure package with ssl for windows that has
the file libcurl.pc file for editing the mentioned changes

Is there anybody that can help me
thanks