Create a Windows Installer

[ripper234]

We'd like to make the software as accessible as possible. I see there are instructions for other OSes, but none for Windows.

I think it's a top priority to create a point-and-click installer, specifically for Windows, that doesn't assume any dependencies.

For starters, before there really is a nice packaged installer, I'd start with adding Windows installation instructions ... but we should follow that up with creating the actual installer.

[maran]

I'm already working on this. The problem is that windows and ruby don't go that well together. A lot of the requirements need to build compiled from source. I am happy to report I got a initial build working on windows though. Next up I will try to package this build in a setup-able installation.

Please check out Zathras's client though, it's build on windows tools and should be exactly what you are looking for.

[PBendall]

Just tried following the instructions for Windows and I'm getting an error on the install of mastercoin-wallet:

C:/Ruby200-x64/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
ERROR! QT SDK doesn't exist at C:\Qt\4.8.3

Can I assume this means the QT framework is missing and this is also a pre-req?

[maran]

Hmm that's weird. I didn't have QT installed on my VM as far as I know. I was under the impression the gem would install a native qtbinding version. However I also use this VM for Electrum building and perhaps I already installed it before hand.

[XBase-xOR]

I got a similar error for "gem install mastercoin-wallet", just with 32 bit Ruby and a different Qt version:

C:/Ruby200/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
 ERROR! QT SDK doesn't exist at C:\Qt\4.8.5

I installed Qt 4.8.5 Windows binaries from http://qt-project.org/downloads at the location shown and tried again. It failed again, this time it ended up with:

/bin/sh: line 0: cd: extbuild: No such file or directory
make: [build] Error 1 (ignored)
cd ext\build && mingw32-make
/bin/sh: line 0: cd: extbuild: No such file or directory
make: *** [build] Error 1

I tried to install qtbindings with "gem install qtbindings" but that failed with exactly the same error, so I assume that's where it originally comes from. Therefore I opened ryanmelt/qtbindings#70.
Also I noticed from the console that it wants to execute "cmake" but there is no cmake included in the Ruby DevKit. I checked the README included in the qtbindings package and it says that cmake 2.8.x is needed so I installed that too. Unfortunately the error message stays the same so I am stuck at this point.

On some chinese website I found that an older version can be installed by using:

gem install qtbindings -v4.6.3.4

This worked and finally I could run "gem install mastercoin-wallet" without error. Installing bitcoin-ruby-0.0.2.gem worked too. But now when I try to run "mastercoin-wallet" it says it can't find qtruby4.so (LoadError). Searching for this error I found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7577248/how-can-i-get-qt4-running-with-ruby-1-9-2-on-windows-7 where the OP concludes that qtruby shouldn't be used. Oh well...
I think I give up for now. Maybe I will try to install it in some virtual Linux environment, that should be easier. From what I have read while investigating on these issues there are often many problems with making Ruby run correctly on Windows which makes me wonder whether it was a good choice for a cross-platform application :(

[XBase-xOR]

On kubuntu it's not working either, see my comment for #9
I start to doubt that this was built for normal users, it seems to be only for ruby professionals.

[PBendall]

I think I have installed this now on Windows 7 32-bit. I have documented the whole process but it is pretty verbose and some steps maybe unnecessary, something to work on as I'm a noobie to Ruby. I'd like to sign-off but I'm not sure how to get a Mastercoin address??

So this is what I did:

• Download and install Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29
• Download the main OpenSSL installation "Win32_OpenSSL_v1.0.1e" this is the whole package and not Light version - http://slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL-1_0_1e.exe
• Download the main Ruby install, don't install the latest version 2.0.0 but install the previous version "Ruby 1.9.3-pX" - http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-1.9.3-p448.exe?direct
• Download the DevKit for the version of Ruby, this should be "DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20111229-1559-sfx" - https://github.com/downloads/oneclick/rubyinstaller/DevKit-tdm-32-4.5.2-20111229-1559-sfx.exe
• Download & install a copy of Cmake 2.8.5, again this is not the current revision of Cmake so you should look through the archives, however the direct file download is available from http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.5-win32-x86.exe
• Download MinGW a specific version of GCC is required so you are looking for the compressed file MinGW-gcc440_1.zip I found it on Google - http://code.google.com/p/piece-of-c/downloads/detail?name=MinGW-gcc440_1.zip
• Download & install a specific version of QT as it would appear that the MasterCoin-Wallet was built against version 4.8.3 (the current version is QT 5.x so you need to browse the archive library). The direct url is http://download.qt-project.org/archive/qt/4.8/4.8.3/qt-win-opensource-4.8.3-mingw.exe
• Install QTBindings from the Ruby Gem repository using the following command in a command prompt window - "gem install qtbindings -v 4.8.3.0"
• Finally install the Mastercoin-Wallet again from the Ruby gem repository using the following command in a command prompt window "gem install mastercoin-wallet"

That's it; when I typed "mastercoin-wallet" the application started and I was prompted for a pass-phrase and Mastercoin-Wallet address

HTH

Paul

[maran]

Wow Paul you really went the extra mile on this! 👍

I hope you realise that there already is a Windows wallet out there, it's called the My Mastercoin Wallet. It's being maintained by Bitoy and you can find it here.

As to your questions on how to get a Mastercoin address. It's really simple! You probably already have one. Every Bitcoin address can function as Mastercoin address. You just export a private key for a address you want to use as Mastercoin address and that's it :)

[XBase-xOR]

Now that sounds like a comprehensive guide on how to get it working, will try that. Thanks @OldCole

@maran: The MyMastercoinWallet you linked is only a binary download and while I can find source code for another similar wallet (the non "thin" wallet) I can't find it for this one that was updated just a day ago.
If anything I'd start looking into zathras implementation, as I have been programming C# .NET a lot myself. But it seems nothing happened with it since the initial commit 3 months ago :-(
Right now I'd rather stick with the guy that was just announced as full time mastercoin dev, congrats :-)
Also I don't care so much about whether it's Windows or Linux, I will try to get this working on ubuntu too (with the script you have linked there).

[maran]

Zathras is always a bit behind with pushing, I'm sure he will push once
it's stable enough for the public. You are welcome to try my wallet it's
just such a PITA to get working on Windows. Good luck!

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:52 PM, xOR notifications@github.com wrote:

Now that sounds like a comprehensive guide on how to get it working, will
try that. Thanks @OldCole https://github.com/OldCole

@maran https://github.com/maran: The MyMastercoinWallet you linked is
only a binary download and while I can find source code for another similar
wallet (the non "thin" wallet) I can't find it for this one that was
updated just a day ago.
If anything I'd start looking into zathras implementation, as I have been
programming C# .NET a lot myself. But it seems nothing happened with it
since the initial commit 3 months ago :-(
Right now I'd rather stick with the guy that was just announced as full
time mastercoin dev, congrats :-)

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