Building bitgen for Windows using Windows

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This document describes how to build bitgen for Windows using Windows.
(No cross-compile from Linux)

To build bitgen for Windows, MSYS2 and the Mingw-w64 C++ compiler is used.

First install MSYS2 on Windows. Go to the following page:

https://msys2.github.io/

Follow the instruction on the page, and install the minimal run-time system.

This will include the following commands:

$ update-core
$ pacman -Su
$ pacman -Syu

A reboot seems to be needed during the installation.

Next, install the mingw-w64 C++ compiler using pacman:

$ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc

Install "make" and "tar"

$ pacman -S make
$ pacman -S tar

Next, copy the tar-file to the work folder, for example:

C:\msys64\home\user

Unpack the files and go the the new folder:

$ tar -xvf bitgen_0.12.tar
$ cd bitgen_0.12

Build with make:

$ make -f Makefile.windows

Finally, run the unit tests:

$ ./bitgen test
$ ./bitsig test
$ ./bitcry test

The exe-files can be used from a normal windows command window,

and in that case the prefix "./" is not needed:

$ bitgen test
$ bitsig test
$ bitcry test