Provide Windows builds

[DamienGrand]

Pretty much what it says on the title (please pardon if silly question)

[mbevand]

It seems eXtremal has successfully compiled silentarmy (and packaged it in a miner) for Windows: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1660023.0

I plan to provide Windows builds of silentarmy myself in the near future.

[dtawom]

So I'm a nub at all this stuff. I tried downloading the windows build but the only exe I got out of it was sa-solver.exe and none of the command switches in readme to mine for silentarmy seem to work except for --list. I've cloned the windows repository up to the point listed below and now I'm just confused as to how to get this thing mining on windows. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks in advance. https://github.com/mbevand/silentarmy/tree/fdac346b3bd9ddff50236eb2f82ebcf3d7942af5

[dtawom]

Windows builds of silentarmy here https://github.com/maztheman/nheqminer

[samatjain]

@mbevand Did you have any thoughts on silentarmy building w/ CMake?

The only issue I see is with the Makefile target for _kernel.h; since it uses Linux-specific commands, that generation bit won't run on Windows. Since Python 3 is already a pre-requisite, I could whip up a Python script that generates those files in a cross-platform manner.

Let me know; I'll work on a PR.

[aleksander]

@samatjain take a look on #90 for more preferable _kernel.h generation method (C array instead of C++11 raw string).

[samatjain]

@aleksander Unfortunately xxd is Linux/macOS only. Does clang really not support C++11 raw strings?

[aleksander]

Unfortunately xxd is Linux/macOS only.

@samatjain I didn't mean to use xxd, but the output of your python3 script should be like the one from xxd (C array and not C++11 raw string).

Does clang really not support C++11 raw strings?

silentarmy's sa-solver written in C not C++. So this is strange to use C++11 raw strings in C project. I don't know why GCC permits things like this. I believe this should be replaced by C array.