Code originally by The Bytecoin and Cryptonote Team, edited by System96

Essentially, Cryptostake is the same as the original Cryptonote protocol, but with Proof Of Stake added on to it. So basically, it allows people to make POW/POS anonymous coins. I might make a entirely POS version of Cryptonote, we'll just have to see.

Download dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential git cmake libboost1.55-all-dev

Then, cd into the Cryptostake folder and make

make

Wait for the compile, and you'll be done.

If you are getting a compile error on Ubuntu regarding RocksDB, go into external/rocksdb/build_tools and do this command

chmod 755 build_detect_platform

That should fix the issue and the compile should work.

Windows compile is a little more tricky, but doable. Download Boost version over 1.5.5. I would suggest using an official installer to download it. Make sure the version corresponds to your MSVC version (if your msvc version is 14 for example in the cmake generator, download the msvc-14 version of the boost installer)

Make sure to have MSVC 2015, you could use 2017, but I have trouble using MSbuild with 2017, and you need to use MSbuild command prompt to create the MSVC solution file.

Here is the command you should use for creating the MSVC solution file:

cmake -G "your-msvc-generator" -DBOOST_ROOT=file-path-to-boost -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=file-path-to-msvc-libs file-path-to-cmakelists.txt

After that, open the solution file in MSVC 2015, build the solution in Release mode, and after a while it should build the binaries.