Build Windows

How to build on Windows

Windows 64bit (tested with Windows 11)

1. Installing msys2 from here.
2. Open MSYS2 MINGW64 shell. The MINGW64 shell window should look similar to the screenshot below.

3. Install the following libraries:

pacman -S base-devel git gcc make

4. Install clang, go for mingw64 and unzip

pacman -S  mingw-w64-x86_64-clang mingw-w64-x86_64-go unzip

5. Set environment variables

export GOROOT=/mingw64/lib/go
export GOPATH=/mingw64
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

# use clang as a default compiler for CGO
go env -w "CC=/mingw64/bin/clang.exe"

5. Clone zwalletcli

git clone https://github.com/0chain/zwalletcli.git

6. Navigate to zwalletcli and run the following command :

cd zwallet
make install

7. Download necessary dll files as zip from here. Unzip and copy dll's to the following path C:\msys64\home<your_windows_username>\zwalletcli (This directory is created when MSYS2 is installed and zwalletcli is cloned under MSYS2 MINGW64 shell).

wget https://github.com/0chain/zboxcli/files/11840033/windows.dll.s.zip
unzip windows.dll.s.zip

8. Now rename zwallet file under zwalletcli directory(C:\msys64\home<your_windows_username>\zwalletcli) to zwallet.exe. See the screenshot below for reference:

9. Launch Windows PowerShell and navigate to the zwalletcli directory (typically located at C:\msys64\home<your_windows_username>\zwalletcli). Execute the ./zwallet command to display the comprehensive help list. Refer to the screenshot below: