Re: Building headless Bitcoin and Bitcoin-qt on Windows

Edit: I successfully compiled bitcoin/master today, and here is what I learned:

Quote from: nitrogenetics on February 09, 2015, 10:25:20 PM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/files/0.28-1/pkg-config-lite-0.28-1.tar.gz/download

Code:

configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install

I was unable to make autoreconf include m4 files from folders other than /usr/share/aclocal, so I configured it to be installed to /usr.

In the MSYS shell, /usr and / are the same, and the folder called /usr (and /) in that shell is actually C:\MinGW\msys\1.0.

I did some simple testing:

Code:

Dave@WindowsCompiler /
$ ls
bin etc home lib m.ico msys.bat msys.ico postinstall sbin share

Dave@WindowsCompiler /
$ cd /usr

Dave@WindowsCompiler /usr
$ ls
bin etc home lib m.ico msys.bat msys.ico postinstall sbin share

Given that, I used a solution from StackExchange:

Code:

ACLOCAL_PATH=/usr/share/aclocal ./autogen.sh

in the bitcoin directory and that avoided the PKG_... errors during the execution of ./configure.