Hi Djm34

That is fair, I have no way of really proving otherwise. I guess its up to people if they want to take the risk. I'm no genius C++ programmer I'm more of an business application developer. So this might not be perfect but it works for me.

For others who want to compile it themselves using Visual Studio 2013 without MingW:

do a


Then open the "cpuminer.sln" file.

Make the following changes:

in compat/cpuminer-config.h


changed to (uncommented it):



In /miner.h

Find this line:


and add this below it:


and finally make sure you build for x64 as the curl libraries are 64 bit from what I understand.