sgminer/doc/windows-build.txt

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(See bottom of file for steps to cross-build for Win32 from Linux.)

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* Introduction                                                                       *
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The following instructions have been tested on both Windows 7 and Windows XP.
Most of what is described below (copying files, downloading files, etc.) can be done
directly in the MinGW MSYS shell; these instructions do not do so because package
versions and links change over time. The best way is to use your browser, go to the
links directly, and see for yourself which versions you want to install.
Winrar was used to do the extracting of archive files in the making of this guide.

If you think that this documentation was helpful and you wish to donate, you can
do so at the following address. 12KaKtrK52iQjPdtsJq7fJ7smC32tXWbWr

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* A tip that might help you along the way                                            *
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Enable "QuickEdit Mode" in your Command Prompt Window or MinGW Command Prompt
Window (No need to go into the context menu to choose edit-mark/copy/paste):
Right-click on the title bar and click Properties. Under the Options tab, check
the box for "QuickEdit Mode". Alternately, if you want this change to be
permanent on all of your Command Prompt Windows; you can click Defaults instead
of Properties as described above. Now you can drag and select text you want to
copy, right-click to copy the text to the clipboard and right-click once again to
paste it at the desired location. You could for example, copy some text from this
document to the clipboard and right click in your Command Prompt Window to paste
what you copied.

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* Install mingw32                                                                    *
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Download and install the following Mingw32 version by doing a google search for:
"mingw-get-inst-20120426"
This is currently a known working version, but this could be a different version
later.

During installation, select all the check boxes (excluding "Fortran Compiler") so that
everything is installed.

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* Run the MSYS shell for the first time to create your user directory                *
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(Start Icon/keyboard key ==> All Programs ==> MinGW ==> MinGW Shell).
This will create your user directory for you.

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* Install pthreads                                                                   *
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Type the lines below to install pthreads:
mingw-get install pthreads

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* Install libpdcurses                                                                *
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Type the lines below to install libpdcurses.
mingw-get install mingw32-libpdcurses
mingw-get install mingw32-pdcurses
Ctrl-D or typing "logout" and pressing the enter key should get you out of the
window.

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* Download or copy sgminer source to your MSYS working directory                     *
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Download sgminer from source. In mingw32, type:
 git clone git://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer.git

or

Copy sgminer source code directory into:
\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(folder with your user name)

For SGMINER it will look like:
\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(folder with your user name)\Sgminer-Master\ 
when unzipped.

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* Install AMD APP SDK, latest version (only if you want GPU mining)                  *
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Go to this url for the latest AMD APP SDK:
 http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/
Go to this url for legacy AMD APP SDK's:
 http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/download-archive/
Download and install the Windows 32 bit version.
Copy the folders in \Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\include to \MinGW\include
Copy \Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\lib\x86\libOpenCL.a to \MinGW\lib
Note: If you are on a 32 bit version of windows "Program Files (x86)" will be
"Program Files".
Note2: If you update your APP SDK later you might want to recopy the above files

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* Install AMD ADL SDK, latest version (only if you want GPU monitoring)              *
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Warning: sgminer 5.0.0 does NOT yet support ADL SDK 7.0, so you will have to install the version 6.0 instead.
This may change in a future version of sgminer.

Go to this url ==> http://developer.amd.com/tools/graphics-development/display-library-adl-sdk/
Download and unzip the file you downloaded.
Pull adl_defines.h, adl_sdk.h, and adl_structures.h out of the include folder
Put those files into the ADL_SDK folder in your source tree as shown below.
\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(folder with your user name)\sgminer\ADL_SDK

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* Install GTK-WIN, required for Pkg-config in the next step                          *
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Go to this url ==> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/
Download the file.
After you have downloaded the file Double click/run it and this will install GTK+
I chose all the selection boxes when I installed.
Copy libglib-2.0-0.dll and intl.dll from \Program Files (x86)\gtk2-runtime\bin to
\MinGW\bin
Note: If you are on a 32 bit version of windows "Program Files (x86)" will be
"Program Files".

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* Install pkg-config                                                                 *
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Go to this url ==> http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
Scroll down to where it shows pkg-cfg under GTK+ 2.x
Download the file from the "Tool" link. Extract "pkg-config.exe" from bin and place in
your  \MinGW\bin directory.
Download the file from the "Dev" link. Extract "pkg.m4" from share\aclocal and place
in your \MingW\share\aclocal directory.

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* Install libcurl                                                                    *
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Go to this url ==> http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32
At the section where it says "Win32 - Generic", Click on the link that indicates
Win32 2000.XP 7.xx.x libcurl SSL and download it.
Extract the files that are in the zip (bin, include, and lib) to their respective
locations in MinGW (\MinGW\bin, \MinGW\include, and \MinGW\lib).
Edit the file \MinGW\lib\pkgconfig\libcurl.pc and search for the line that ends 
with "-lcurl", and make it say "-lcurl -lcurldll".
Ref. http://old.nabble.com/gcc-working-with-libcurl-td20506927.html

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* Install jansson in the submodules of sgminer                                       *
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Go to this url:
 http://www.digip.org/jansson/

Download the latest version of jansson available.
Unzip, extract and copy all the content of the janson-x.x folder into your folder:
 \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(folder with your user name)\sgminer\submodules\jansson
 
In mingw32, go to your jansson folder. Usually by typing:
 cd sgminer/submodules/jansson

Now install jansson by typing:
autoreconf -i --force --install
./configure
make
make install

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* Build sgminer.exe                                                                  *
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Run the MinGW MSYS shell
(Start Icon/keyboard key ==> All Programs ==> MinGW ==> MinGW Shell).
Change the working directory to your sgminer project folder.
Example: cd sgminer-master [Enter Key] if you are unsure then type "ls -la"
Another way is to type "cd sg" and then press the tab key; It will auto fill.
Type the lines below one at a time. Look for problems after each one before going on
to the next.

      adl.sh (optional - see below - skip this entirely)
      autoreconf -fvi
      CFLAGS="-O2 -msse2" ./configure (for GPU mining add --enable-opencl, see below: "Some ./configure options")
      make
      strip sgminer.exe  <== only do this if you are not compiling for debugging
      
In the event ther are error messages, you MAY have to start from scratch by going
back to the "Install AMD APP SDK, latest version" step because these lines will modify
your files from the original form.

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* Copy files to a build directory/folder                                             *
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Make a directory and copy the following files into it. This will be your sgminer
Folder that you use for mining. Remember the .cl filenames could change on later
releases. If you installed a different version of libcurl then some of those dll's
may be different as well.
  sgminer.exe     from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer
  kernel folder   from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer
  libcurl.dll     from \MinGW\bin
  libidn-11.dll   from \MinGW\bin
  libeay32.dll    from \MinGW\bin
  ssleay32.dll    from \MinGW\bin
  libpdcurses.dll from \MinGW\bin
  pthreadGC2.dll  from \MinGW\bin
  zlib1.dll       from \MinGW\bin
  doc folder      from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer (optional)
  README.md       from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer (optional)
  AUTHORS.md      from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer (optional)
  ChangeLog       from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer (optional)
  COPYING         from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer (optional)
  example.conf    from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer (optional)
  NEWS.md         from \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(username)\sgminer (optional)

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* Optional - Install Git into MinGW/MSYS                                             *
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Go to this url ==> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
Click on the Downloads tab.
Download the latest "Portable" git archive.
Extract the git*.exe files from the bin folder and put them into \MinGW\bin.
Extract the share\git-core folder and place it into \MinGW\share.
After the previous step you should have a folder called \MinGW\share\git-core.
To test if it is working, open a MinGW shell and type the following:
  git config -–global core.autocrlf false (note: one time run only)
  git clone git://github.com/sgminer-dev/sgminer.git

If you simply just want to update the source after you have already cloned, type:
  git pull
"git pull" did not work for me. Try the following which does the same thing:
  git fetch && git merge FETCH_HEAD

Now you can get the latest source directly from github.

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* Optional - Make a .sh file to automate copying over ADL files                      *
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Make a folder/directory in your home folder and name it ADL_SDK.
 (ref:  \MinGW\msys\1.0\home\(folder with your user name)\ADL_SDK)
Copy the ADL .h files into that folder/directory.
Open your favorite text editor and type the following into it.
 cp -av ../ADL_SDK/*.h ADL_SDK
Save the file as "adl.sh" and then place the file into "\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin".
From now on when your current working directory is the sgminer source directory
You can simply type "adl.sh" and it will place the ADL header files into place
For you. Make sure you never remove the ADL_SDK folder from your home folder.

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* Some ./configure options                                                           *
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--enable-opencl         Enable support for GPU mining with opencl
--disable-adl           Override detection and disable building with ADL
--disable-adl-checks    Override detection and assume ADL is present
--disable-libcurl       Disable building with libcurl for getwork and GBT support
--without-curses        Compile support for curses TUI (default enabled)



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It is possible to cross-compile Windows binaries from Linux. The
process is a bit different to the native steps shown above (it is also
possible to use wine and the native steps, but this is more messing
around, very slow, and not advisable.)

** Install mingw cross compiler

On Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install mingw32

** create a directory to hold our cross-library dependencies

We'll create a directory outside the source tree to hold non-system
libraries we depend on. We could put these in
/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib or anywhere else, instead (though keeping it
outside /usr means we can set it up without root privileges.)

IMPORTANT: If you put this directory inside your sgminer directory,
remember 'make distclean' may delete it!

mkdir -p ../win32/lib
cd ../win32
mkdir include
mkdir bin

NB: All following steps assume you are in the "win32" directory. Adjust as necessary.

** pdcurses

wget http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pdcurses/pdcurses/3.4/pdc34dllw.zip
unzip /home/gus/Downloads/pdc34dllw.zip
mv *.h include/
mv pdcurses.lib lib/
mv pdcurses.dll bin/

** pthreads-w32

(NB: I found pthreads-w32 2.9.1 doesn't seem to work properly, transfers time out
early due to sem_timedwait exiting immediately(?))

wget -O lib/libpthread.a ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/lib/libpthreadGC2.a
wget -O include/pthread.h ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/include/pthread.h
wget -O include/sched.h ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/include/sched.h
wget -O include/semaphore.h ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/include/semaphore.h
wget -O lib/libpthread.a ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/lib/libpthreadGC2.a
wget -O bin/pthreadGC2.dll ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-8-0-release/lib/pthreadGC2.dll

** libcurl

wget http://curl.haxx.se/gknw.net/7.33.0/dist-w32/curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32.zip
unzip curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32.zip
mv curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32/include/* include/
mv curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32/lib/* lib/
mv curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32/bin/* bin/
rm -rf curl-7.33.0-devel-mingw32


** clean up

rm *.zip


** Building

Below assumes you're building in a "build-win32" or similar directory
inside the sgminer directory. Fix up the -I and -L paths appropriately
if you're building in-tree or someplace else.

Configure command:

CPPFLAGS="-I`pwd`/../../win32/include" LDFLAGS="-L`pwd`/../../win32/lib -lcurldll" ../autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/i586-mingw32 --host=i586-mingw32msvc --build=i686-linux 

^^^ Plus whatever configure arguments you want to add. Note the paths
    to win32 that you may need to change.

And make:

make

After building, the next steps are the same as for native
building as given under "Copy files to a build directory/folder"
(DLLs can all be found in the win32/bin directory.)