Windows

Table of contents

• Building the projects - Windows
• Requirements
  • Installing the requirements using chocolatey
  • Installing rust
• Building the binaries
  • What was built

Building the projects - Windows

This section will explain how to build the Epic Cash projects on Windows and the necessary requirements.

Requirements

• rust (Stable)
• Cmake, between 1.16 and 1.19
• openssl
• strawberryperl
• visualstudio2019community
• visualstudio2019-workload-nativedesktop
• llvm

Installing the requirements using chocolatey

Instructions on how to install chocolatey can be found on Chocolatey install page.

To install all the dependencies, besides rust, run:

choco install -f -y cmake --version=3.16.2 --installargs 'ADD_CMAKE_TO_PATH=System'
choco install -f -y openssl
choco install -f -y strawberryperl
choco install -f -y visualstudio2019community
choco install -f -y visualstudio2019-workload-nativedesktop
choco install -f -y llvm

Installing rust

Instructions on how to install rust can be found on the rust-lang webpage.

To change rust to version 1.60.0, you can run:

rustup default 1.60.0

To validate rust installation and check the current version you can run:

rustc --version

The output should be something like this:

rustc 1.60.0 (xxxxx)

Building the binaries

With all the requirements installed, clone the project you are trying to build (epic, epic-wallet or epic-miner with:

git clone <link-to-project>

Go to the folder of the cloned repository and run:

git submodule update --init --recursive
cargo build --release

What was built

A successful build should get the binary on:

target/release/<project-name>