Unable to install secp256k1 on Windows PHP 7

[nathanielajayi7]

Hello, I've been unable to compile secp256k1 on my localhost for 3 days now. The only command that works is the clone command and nothing else after that. I have PHP installed via XAMPP and if I need anything else to make it work, I'd love to know as a library I need is dependent on secp256k1. Thanks.

[afk11]

Hi @nathanielajayi7, thanks for opening this issue. We haven't had a request for windows before, unfortunately it's unsupported + probably broken at the moment.

IIRC, the code should work, it's actually just the config.m4 file that needs tweaking for windows. I've never tried but perhaps we can get it working.

I see the commands caused some error in Command Prompt, but that's to be expected right now as we've only published the commands for linux. First you'll have to work out how to install libsecp256k1 on Windows.

You need to swap out this line:
git clone [email protected]:bitcoin-core/secp256k1
with this
git clone https://github.com:bitcoin-core/secp256k1

because I see the permission denied warning. The 'secp256k1' directory should exist once this is fixed, and you can try the rest of the commands

&& not sure if this is valid in Windows; sudo is a linux thing