Quote from: nullius on February 13, 2018, 12:57:59 AM

Quote from: RGBKey on February 13, 2018, 12:33:15 AM

Quote from: nullius on February 12, 2018, 11:19:40 PM

Head meets wall repeatedly with mingw cross-compiling.

I found a regex library for Windows at PCRE, but now I need to go find a way to get openssl in there too because that's not on Windows either.

Thanks for your response.

I am under the impression that PCRE has wrappers for POSIX regex functionality (#include ); so that should work. Ive also found a bunch of different links and discussions (mostly on Stackoverflow) leading me to believe theres also a mingw regex package without PCRE. I did not yet sort it all out.

I had forgotten about the OpenSSL libcrypto dependency. Thanks for reminding me. It is only used for hash functions, SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160. If it would help, I could easily copy portable C code from FreeBSDs libmd, and eliminate the -lcrypto entirely.

The biggest question to me is getting secp256k1s build system to work with a mingw cross-compile. The code is portable; its part of Bitcoin, which I will take as proof that it runs on Windows. But the trick is to get it to cross-build the right way. Have you tried this part on your Windows machine?

I just tried to use the makefile and deal with the errors in order, I didn't get there