Glad that worked, it's a pain that the dependencies are so big and hard 
to build.  Some of them give little attention to the Windows build. 
Next time I update to the latest versions, maybe I'll lay everything out 
in one directory tree and bundle the whole thing up into a giant archive.

I'm not sure they had wxPack before.  I'm glad they got that so everyone 
doesn't have to build wxWidgets themselves.  OpenSSL is the harder one 
to build.

I reduced the EXE size by running strip.exe on it to take out the debug 
symbols.  That's with mingw.  That's the better compiler, I only used VC 
  for debugging.

mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
> I got it compile with MinGW + MSYS when I used wxPack instead of just 
> wxWidgets. Maybe wxAdditions was required. The bitcoin.exe filesize was 
> 52MB though, I should see how that can be fixed.
> 
> Next I'm going to implement the "minimize to tray" feature and the 
> option to autostart Bitcoin with Windows, so the number of nodes online 
> would stay higher. After that I could see if I can do a Linux port or 
> the command line interface needed for web app frameworks.
> 
> Drop by at #bitcoin-dev on FreeNode some time if you use IRC.
> 
> And again, thanks for the great work you've done with Bitcoin.
> 
> Quote mmalmi@cc.hut.fi:
> 
>> I've had quite a few errors coming up when trying to build the
>> third-party libraries and adding them to the Bitcoin build. Do you
>> happen to have a ready-to-build package that you could upload to the
>> CVS or somewhere else? I use mingw + msys, but I guess I could try
>> Visual C++ also, if it's easier that way.
> 
> 
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