@ jgarzik

Thanks for doing the diagnosis. It was my fault, of course.

Made no headway for quite a while tried changing... and many other fails. Gave up those routes.
Compiled new glib 2.40 from source.

Eventually it compiled very quickly

Now I have it running. Test drive time.
I really like it. Keep up the good work!

Being able to move the existing bitcoid (etc.) wallet to picocon would encourage users to try it.
Maybe one should be able import the wallet-addr to picocon.wallet?

Is this possible?

It doesn't matter to me, as I have no stacks of coins to move or spend yet.
I'm still trying out the software and reading up. Learning.

Netsync still times out -- must get the right timeout value, I guess.
$ picocoin net.connect.timeout=240 netsync

You wrote on Github:
   
Noob question: Which node/how do i find it?

Does picocoin connect through a proxy like polipo/privoxy or tor/SOCKS yet? This will be a popular feature.

Can we use nickname with 'picocoin new-address'? How about delete after address used/emptied of coins?

A secure way to "run it" on a MSWin system is from a quemu image, possibly on a removable drive.
Vbox (or portable vbox) is faster, but quemu doesn't require administrative privileges.
MSWin users can still get fork.

Of course TC and other small linux OSs can be booted from usb... without emulation or virtualization.

Maybe these are silly ideas. I'm sure you've heard them all.

I made a small script to get the passphrase and put it into the environmental var for the shell instance.
Saves me typing export... and reminds me not to use the window for anything else.

I wish I could help, but can not write -- read only