How do I install mingw-std-threads on Ubuntu?

Question

I am downloading the Bitcoin source code for Windows, and trying to compile it using these steps.

I am receiving these errors when I make my Bitcoin source code on Windows Subsystem for Linux

error: ‘mutex’ in namespace ‘std’ does not name a type mutable std::mutex mutex;

It would appear that the sudo apt install g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 package does not include some important threading stuff I need to run by Bitcoin source code. With a bit of digging, it seems that I need to additionally install mingw-std-threads

How do I do this?

uhm... why're you trying to compile Bitcoin within WSL? That's bound to have problems. — Thomas Ward, Dec 10 '17 at 01:38
uhm... That's one of the standard ways suggested on the Bitcoin Github. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-windows.md — Barney Chambers, Dec 10 '17 at 02:09

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 14 '18 at 01:51

It looks like you missed a part of the instructions. On Ubuntu 16.04, you have to run:

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty universe"
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ # Set the default mingw32 g++ compiler option to posix.

On Ubuntu 17.10+:

sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ # Set the default mingw32 g++ compiler option to posix.

How do I install mingw-std-threads on Ubuntu?

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