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Install Dependencies

Visual Studio 2017 Community

download VS2017 Community and install from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
during the install chose the components
- Desktop development with C++ (left side)

CUDA 9.2+

download and install https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
for minimal install choose Custom installation options during the install and select
- CUDA/Develpment
- CUDA/Runtime
- Driver components (Only if NVIDIA GPU installed)

CMake for Win64

download and install the latest version from https://cmake.org/download/
tested version: 3.12.0
during the install choose the option Add CMake to the system PATH for all users

Microhttpd and libuv

Download prebuilt dependencies https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-deps/releases and extract it somewhere.

Compile

Download and unzip xmrig-nvidia.zip
Open a command line cmd
cd to your unzipped source code directory
Execute the following commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -DXMRIG_DEPS=c:\xmrig-deps\msvc2017\x64

It will create Visual Studio Solution file xmrig-nvidia.sln.

⚠️ Don't forget change Debug to Release build.
⚠️ Depends of you MSVC 2017 version you may require change host_config.h in your CUDA installation.

Edit host_config.h

Open file C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v9.2\include\crt\host_config.h and change line 131 to:

#if _MSC_VER < 1600 || _MSC_VER > 1999

Additional CMake options

-DWITH_AEON=OFF Disable CryptoNight-Lite support.
-DWITH_HTTPD=OFF Build without built in http server and API.