compile_Windows.md

Compile xmr-stak for Windows

Install Dependencies

Preparation

• open a command line cmd
• run mkdir C:\xmr-stak-dep

Visual Studio 2017 Community

• download VS2017 Community and install from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
• during the install chose the components
  • Desktop development with C++ (left side)
  • VC++ 2015.3 v140 toolset for desktop (right side)

CMake for Win64

• download and install the latest version from https://cmake.org/download/
• tested version: cmake 3.9
• during the install choose the option Add CMake to the system PATH for all users

Cuda 8.0+ (only needed to use NVIDIA GPUs)

• donwload and install https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
• for minimal install choose Custom installation options during the install and select
  • CUDA/Develpment
  • CUDA/Visual Studio Integration (ignore the warning during the install that VS2017 is not supported)
  • CUDA/Runtime
  • Driver components

AMD APP SDK 3.0 (only needed to use AMD GPUs)

• download and install the latest version from http://developer.amd.com/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/

Dependencies OpenSSL/Hwloc and Microhttpd

• for CUDA 8*:
  • download the version 1 of the precompiled binary from https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-dep/releases/download/v1/xmr-stak-dep.zip
  • version 1 of the pre-compiled dependencies is not compatible with Visual Studio Toolset v141
• for CUDA 9 and/or AMD GPUs, CPU:
  • download the version 2 of the precompiled binary from https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-dep/releases/download/v2/xmr-stak-dep.zip
  • version 2 of the pre-compiled dependencies is not compatible with Visual Studio Toolset v140
• unzip all to C:\xmr-stak-dep

Validate the Dependency Folder

• open a command line cmd
• run

  cd c:\xmr-stak-dep
  tree .
  

• the result should have the same structure

    C:\xmr-stak-dep>tree .
    Folder PATH listing for volume Windows
    Volume serial number is XX02-XXXX
    C:\XMR-STAK-DEP
    ├───hwloc
    │   ├───include
    │   │   ├───hwloc
    │   │   │   └───autogen
    │   │   └───private
    │   │       └───autogen
    │   └───lib
    ├───libmicrohttpd
    │   ├───include
    │   └───lib
    └───openssl
        ├───bin
        ├───include
        │   └───openssl
        └───lib
  

Compile

• download and unzip xmr-stak
• open the command line terminal cmd
• cd to your unzipped source code directory
• execute the following commands (NOTE: path to VS2017 can be different)

  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\VsMSBuildCmd.bat"
  set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\xmr-stak-dep\hwloc;C:\xmr-stak-dep\libmicrohttpd;C:\xmr-stak-dep\openssl
  mkdir build
  cd build
  

  • for CUDA 8*

    cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -T v140,host=x64 ..
    

  • for CUDA 9 and/or AMD GPUs, CPU

    cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -T v141,host=x64 ..
    

  cmake --build . --config Release --target install
  cd bin\Release
  copy C:\xmr-stak-dep\openssl\bin\* .
  

* Miner is also compiled for AMD GPUs (if the AMD APP SDK is installed) and CPUs. CUDA 8 requires a downgrade to the old v140 tool chain.