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I'm trying to compile bitcoin-0.8.6 on Windows using Visual C++ 2010. What I did until now was to create an empty project, added the Bitcoin source files to it, setuped boost/openssl. I'm getting the following syntax error in addrman.h file:

addrman.h(380): error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before '{'

The line where the error occurs is related to the IMPLEMENT_SERIALIZE macro:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.8.6/src/addrman.h#L380

IMPLEMENT_SERIALIZE macro is defined in serialize.h:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.8.6/src/serialize.h#L55

Since Bitcoin was made for GCC/Mingw, I guess there is an incompatibility issue with the way the macros are defined (or I'm wrong?).

Bole Grat
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    Preprocess the file (compile with /P) and see what comes out. This will likely make the syntax issue easier to find. – James McNellis Feb 10 '14 at 07:15
  • Thanks James, it will be helpful. The only problem is that the result of the preprocess related to the macro is too large and doesn't contain new line characters - they've been overwritten by space characters. Because of this I couldn't be able to format it for analysing. – Bole Grat Feb 10 '14 at 13:42

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2017 update: Compilation via the new "Windows Subsystem for Linux" feature in 10 (Ubuntu bash prompt) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-windows.md

Tearo Dactyl
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