diff --git a/Compiling-from-source.md b/Compiling-from-source.md index 02eee45..b516aa1 100644 --- a/Compiling-from-source.md +++ b/Compiling-from-source.md @@ -121,17 +121,15 @@ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6951938/libgmp-10-dll-is-missing #### Download cpuminer-opt Download and decompress cpuminer-opt source code. Download the tar.gz file as it preserves file permissions, -speifically executability. It can be dowloaded from the Windows browser or from MSYS2 MinGW-w64 terminal. -This is different from the terminal used for package instalation. +specifically executability. It can be dowloaded from the Windows browser or from MSYS2 MinGW-w64 terminal. +This is different from the terminal used for package installation. If Windows tools are preferred cpuminer-opt can be downloaded to the Windows Documents folder and accessed from MSYS2 terminal using the path /c/users/[USER]/documents. Notepad++ and 7zip are useful Windows programs with good support for -Linux file formats. +Linux file formats. The MSYS2 home directory can be accessed from Windows with C:\msys2\home\[USER]. -Cpuminer-opt can be downloaded from the MSY2 terminal using git or wget. The MSYS2 home directory can be accessed -from Windows with C:\msys2\home\[USER]. - -Git will download the most recent source code, usually it should always match the latest release. +Cpuminer-opt can be downloaded from the MSYS2 terminal using git or wget. Git will download the most recent source code, +usually it matches the latest release. `$ git clone https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt.git`