How to compile this source code?

[bitcoin]

Hi, I would like to compile this program:

https://github.com/X9Developers/XSN/releases/tag/v1.0.9

As far as I have been told it's writen in C++ so here I am asking how to do it.

I installed this compiler that someone recommended:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/latest/download

I wanted to avoid Vistual Studio because it said it's 15 GB download and my internet is rather slow.

So I have the source code zip file and I have mingw... how to properly compile it?

Thanks

[Handy Andy]

Hello bitcoin,

Welcome to the forum.

As I looked through the .zip file I did see something about C++, but I also saw Python files and am starting to believe that you might need more than a C++ compiler.

Either unzip the file or go through the .zip file and read the README.md and other ".md" files.

In the end you may need both a way to compile C++ programs and a way to run Python programs.

Even for me it would take a while to go through the ".md" files to see how to install everything. It looks like there is a lot of reading that needs done first and a few thing that need setup before you can start installing.

I even saw in one "README.md" file something about Apache server. You may need an Apache server to make this work.

Hope that helps,

Andy

[mbozzi]

Did you read the file named INSTALL in the project root directory?
(When you look at a project like this, that's what you read after the file named README.)

https://github.com/X9Developers/XSN/blob/master/INSTALL

Since you mentioned Visual Studio, you're likely on Windows. The documentation
https://github.com/X9Developers/XSN/blob/master/doc/build-windows.md
Says that building on Windows is possible, but undocumented. You're supposed to cross-compile from a Linux system.

Can you do this? Or do you need actually need to natively build? There are apparently binary packages available for Windows.

[bitcoin]

Thanks all. Yes, I am on Windows 7, I need to build there, I don't have Linux. The binaries aren't signed, and there is no checksum to verify availible, so I can't trust them, I must compile.

cd depends
make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 -j4
cd ..
./configure --prefix=`pwd`/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32
make

I wonder if this will work with mingw-w64 for windows? ( i mean same cvars)

I guess I can get a Linux live CD, build it there and then copy the exe in an USB and go back to windows too.