Since I had only compiled my cleaned bitcoin code with Mac OS X thus far, I thought it would be a good idea to fix the cleaned codebase for Windows compilation. Darn is it complicated to create a bitcoin VC++ build setup! Is anyone building bitcoin using VC++ or is everyone using MinGW? I can compile the "official" version of bitcoin, but whenever I run it, I get tons of runtime assertion errors. Anyone ever got that?

Moreover, it's much more complicated than I thought to make my cleaned code compile under Windows. I thought it was only a matter of correctly "ifdef-ing" a couple of includes I had moved around, but it's much more complicated than that. Where gcc compiles fine, MSVC just spit errors about ambiguous and re-defined symbols and stuff like that. I'm trying to remove the "using namespace X" statements to go around this, but then I get even weirder errors. I don't feel like fighting with MSVC anymore, so I'm giving up.

The positive side is that I got to learn a little bit of C++.