From 520c502dc2da0525ba8885223628fb8040c786b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SeaDude <SeaDude@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:33:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Simplified compile instructions for noobs

There are a lot of hiccups on this step in the AEON Slack Channel.
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diff --git a/doc/compile_Windows.md b/doc/compile_Windows.md
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 ## Compile
 
-- download and unzip `xmr-stak`
+- download `xmr-stak` [Source Code.zip](https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/releases) and save to a location in your `User` folder
+- extract the Source Code.zip file
 - open the command line terminal `cmd`
-- `cd` to your unzipped source code directory
-- execute the following commands (NOTE: path to VS2017 can be different)
+- `cd` to the extracted source code directory
+- execute the following commands (NOTE: path to Visual Studio 2017 Community can be different)
   ```
   "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\VsMSBuildCmd.bat"
   set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\xmr-stak-dep\hwloc;C:\xmr-stak-dep\libmicrohttpd;C:\xmr-stak-dep\openssl
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