No ZMQ on windows #7943

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   achow101 commented at 2:14 am on April 26, 2016: member

   I’m trying to use ZMQ notifications on windows but they don’t seem to work. Even with using the zmq_sub.py script, it still doesn’t work. I noticed that the help message doesn’t contain the zmq stuff. Is this intentional?
2. jonasschnelli added the label RPC/REST/ZMQ on Apr 26, 2016
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   jonasschnelli commented at 7:55 am on April 26, 2016: contributor

   ZMQ is not available on Windows if you are using the “official” Bitcoin-Core binaries. If you wish to use it there, you need to compile Bitcoin-Core yourself.
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   achow101 commented at 12:37 pm on April 26, 2016: member

   Ok.

   Why isn’t ZMQ available in the official binaries then?

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   jonasschnelli commented at 12:44 pm on April 26, 2016: contributor

   Our official binaries are completely static linked. IIRC, it would require some work to allow cross compile of libzmq with MinGW. But maybe @theuni can clarify that…
6. laanwj added the label Windows on Apr 26, 2016
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   laanwj commented at 1:59 pm on April 26, 2016: member

   See this pull request: WIP: force zeromq to work with static linking+mingw #6819

   Feel free to pick it up.

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   laanwj commented at 2:18 pm on April 26, 2016: member

   Another related issue: ZMQ fails to static link on Windows #6681
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   theuni commented at 9:40 pm on April 26, 2016: member

   Looks like zmq has been fixed upstream since then: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/1615, but it hasn’t made it into a release yet. It’s unclear if that change is dependent on some prior fixes, or if it just always worked. I suppose we can backport the patch and test.
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    fanquake commented at 11:41 am on September 2, 2016: member

    Should have been fixed in #8238
11. fanquake closed this on Sep 2, 2016

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