zcash-qt-wallet is a z-Addr first wallet UI frontend for zcashd that runs on Windows and Linux

Installation

zcash-qt-wallet needs a zcash node running zcashd. Download the zcash node software from https://z.cash/download/ and start zcashd. If you are running Windows, you can get WinZEC

Prerequisites: zcashd

zcashd needs to run with RPC enabled and with a RPC username/password set. Add the following entries into ~/.zcash/zcash.conf

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password

zcash-qt-wallet should auto-detect zcashd and WinZEC. If you are running zcashd on WSL, then please set the connection parameters in the File->Settings menu.

Installing zcash-qt-wallet

Head over to the releases page and grab the latest binary. https://github.com/adityapk00/zcash-qt-wallet/releases

Linux

Extract and run the binary

tar -xvf zcash-qt-wallet-v0.1.9.tar.gz
./zcash-qt-wallet-v0.1.9/zcash-qt-wallet

Windows

Unzip the release binary and double click on zcash-qt-wallet to start.

Compiling from source

zcash-qt-wallet depends on Qt5, which you can get from here: https://www.qt.io/download

Compiling on Linux

You need a C++14 compatible compiler like g++ or clang++

git clone https://github.com/adityapk00/zcash-qt-wallet.git
cd zcash-qt-wallet
/path/to/qt5/bin/qmake zcash-qt-wallet.pro CONFIG+=debug
make -j$(nproc)

./zcash-qt-wallet

Compiling on Windows

You need Visual Studio 2017 (The free C++ Community Edition works just fine).

From the VS Tools command prompt

c:\Qt5\bin\qmake.exe zcash-qt-wallet.pro -tp vc CONFIG+=debug

This will create the Visual Studio project files. You can then open Visual Studio and compile and run normally.

Troubleshooting FAQ

1. "Connection Error"

Normally, zcash-qt-wallet can pick up the rpcuser/rpcpassword from zcash.conf. If it doesn't for some reason, you can set the username/password in the File->Settings menu. If you are connecting to a remote node, make sure that zcashd on the remote machine is accepting connections from your machine. The target machine's firewall needs to allow connections from your host and also zcashd is set to be configured to accept connections from this host.

The easiest way to connect to a remote node is probably to ssh to it with port forwarding like this:

ssh -L8232:127.0.0.1.9232 user@remotehost

2. "Not enough balance" when sending transactions

The most likely cause for this is that you are trying to spend unconfirmed funds. Unlike bitcoin, the zcash protocol doesn't let you spent unconfirmed funds yet. Please wait for 1-2 blocks for the funds to confirm and retry the transaction.

PS: zcash-qt-wallet is NOT an official wallet, and is not affiliated with the ZCash Company in any way.