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Download and build on windows

You will need an up to date edition of Visual Studio, Git-Bash for windows, and Pandoc

In a Git bash command prompt, cd to the directory where you intend to install the source code.

git clone --recursive git@cpal.pw:~/wallet

Then launch the visual studio X64 native tools command prompt. cd to the wallet directory that was just created

winConfigure

If all goes well, winConfigure.bat will call "%ProgramFiles%"\Git\git-bash winConfigure.sh to launch winConfigure.sh in the bash command prompt, winConfigure.sh will configure the libraries to be built, then winConfigure.bat will call msbuild, which is Microsofts equivalent to make on steroids, msbuild will then build the libraries, and finally build and launch the wallet with the unit test flag set to perform and display the unit test. To rebuild the wallet after you have changed something, use Visual Studio.

To rebuild the html files after changing the markdown files, call the bash script mkdocs.sh, which calls Pandoc.

If something goes wrong, and it is not obvious what went wrong, go back to the git-bash command prompt and try ./winConfigure.sh

Pandoc needs to be available from the git-bash command prompt to build html documentation from the markdown documentation. It gets called from mkdocs.sh. It normally is available if you have installed Pandoc.

Git-bash needs to be available from native tools command prompt. If installed, it normally is as

 "%ProgramFiles%"\Git\git-bash