I've downloaded the Bitcoin source code and compiled it successfully. I've now got Bitcoin-QT running and synchronising transactions. In the meantime, I thought I'd have a play with the cli but when I run bitcoin-cli on the command line (I'm running Windows 10 by the way), I get the following error:
error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332 (error code 1 - "EOF reached")
Make sure the bitcoind server is running and that you are connecting to the correct RPC port.
I'm not sure if I need to specify a port (if so, how?) or whether its because the bitcoin-qt is running and not bitcoind.exe? Or is there likely to be some other issue?
Thanks
Run the daemon. If you're running QT, you can just open the console and try out the commands. They are the same set of available commands.