Eventually I got the boost source installed and built, but monero never built fully. Suffering from some linker errors. I tried many different git revisions with same trouble. Finally give up and decide to use win32 binary inside of VM. Fairly painless to get an address using simplewallet. But now I want to send this crap coin to the exchange to drop it like it's hot. Not so fast in Monero land. Seems a blockchain.bin cannot be downloaded for 32bit windows for some reason. Which is nominally fine since even if i had it there seems to be no explanation of where to put the stupid file, so I decide to do the old fashioned sync. Well this has been going on for some time now, and my VM has downloaded over 40GB!!!! of data for 78 days of history. It already filled up the disk and I had to start deleting things. Although deleting the actual blockchain when this nightmare is over seems unlikely as I can't %^&* find it.
Please blow up this coin so I don't have to mine it anymore.
Posts like this just make me want to buy more and more XMR..thank you