It's a real pain in the behind. I spent ages tryng to set up BOOST and QT on MingGW, but after about 20 "issues" (eg a patch required to fix a compile error) I felt I was wandering into "hack" territory - too much work to compile a specific set of libraries for a particular coin, that would probably end up broken again if anything ever changed.

Have a look at Gitian, which uses a virtual machine under Linux to provide a consistent OS install for cross compiling a Windows executable. The config files (*.yml) for ADTv2 seem to be valid, and are located in contrib/gitian-descriptors/ . You need to build boost, qt, deps first (at each step, move the zip created from build/out to inputs/ ), then do the final gitian-win32 client build.

Once the compile succeeds, try modifying the YML files to work with newer libraries. In particular, I would update openssl.

I find this link for Windows wallets is useful https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/149479.0

I found compiling in Linux to be more straightforward but had quite a bit of trouble getting it to compile in Windows. If you could help with a little guide if you are successful I can shout you a bit of Btc

Would you be able to explain this in a bit more detail? specifically

 "(at each step, move the zip created from build/out to inputs/ ), then do the final gitian-win32 client build."

I had used the link I posted as well and could compile Boost, QT and all dependencies but had a lot of trouble with compiling errors when trying to link Berkley libraries and really just error after error.

After further reviewing the code that e.exchangers has given me I left negative feedback because the code he used has a number of coding errors as seen by pushing the code against other coins and I paid him 0.5 BTC for some further work with no word in nearly a week. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt but can't wait for weeks and months on end for code that he can't fix himself.

Zack, if you would like I can help you with source code of a Pow/Pos coin that is functional and works and can show you where changes need to be made and how to create a new Merklehash and Genesis Block as well as compiling on Linux.

I would need a bit of help with compiling on windows though so would like to do a bit of quid pro quo and share information.

Yes I know that, but would be good to have an independent copy to test and try new things on so can be more confident of changes.

What is Testnet?

Price of ADT has risen a little. I'll take whatever I can get

1. any info about the repair?
2. are we able to move adt to cryptsy now?
3. any future projects on the table for adt?

1, I have paid BTC to e.exchanger through Zach too, Not happy with the outcome.
2, If Zach is really gone we need appoint someone to fix this mess finally and get going again before its too late. (if not too late already).
3, we need to make this coin more serious and put a proper team behind it if we all want it to succeed.
4, must go back onto Cryptsy ASAP as I suspect they will ban it if not fixed soon.