Quote from: Kyune on June 06, 2013, 11:41:51 PM

If you are a windows user and want to run the coin, I'd wager it is more straightforward to install linux (e.g., Ubuntu 12.04) in a virtual machine and compile the coin there rather than try to compile a windows binary form the source code (relatively painful, from what everyone says). Virtualbox is free and works fine for this purpose.

With altcoin releases, this has the added benefit of "sandboxing" the new coin in a VM just in case there is harmful code designed to steal your wallets or what not.

+1, you can then just point your miner to the IP address of the VM (the .conf has to be adjusted to accept connections from the host).