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Harshit Mehndiratta edited this page Oct 30, 2023 · 16 revisions

How to build on Windows

Windows 64bit (tested with Windows 11)

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

mingw64 shell

Install the following libraries:

pacman -S base-devel git gcc make

Install clang, go for mingw64 and unzip

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

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"

Clone zboxcli

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

Navigate to zboxcli and run the following command:

cd zboxcli
make install

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

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

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

zbox file rename

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

powershell