Windows Build

• If you just want change file icon or description don't need to compile, you can use tools like Resource Hacker.

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)
  • Toolset for Visual Studio C++ 2015.3 v140... (right side)

Cuda 8.0+

• donwload 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

CMake for Win64

• download and install the latest version from https://cmake.org/download/
• tested version: cmake 3.9
• 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 miner-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" -T v140,host=x64 -DXMRIG_DEPS=c:\xmrig-deps\msvc2015\x64

It will create Visual Studio Solution file xmrig-nvidia.sln. Don't forget change Debug to Release build.

Additional CMake options

• -DWITH_AEON=OFF Disable CryptoNight-Lite support.
• -DWITH_HTTPD=OFF Build without built in http server and API.
• -DCUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR="c:/Program Files/NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit/CUDA/v8.0" Use custom CUDA version.