From 9cd0175d33c75ba0a319ef178ecae54065207e5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JayDDee Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 19:56:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Compiling from source (markdown) --- Compiling-from-source.md | 34 +++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/Compiling-from-source.md b/Compiling-from-source.md index 6c330f1..c60875b 100644 --- a/Compiling-from-source.md +++ b/Compiling-from-source.md @@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ they will give a clue as to the missing package. The following command should install everything you need on Debian based distributions such as Ubuntu. Fedora and other distributions may have similar -but different package names. +but different package names. As of v23.8 OpenSSL (libssl-dev) is no longer reqwuired. ` -$ sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjansson-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev git +$ sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libcurl4-openssl-dev libjansson-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev git ` #### Download cpuminer-opt @@ -122,16 +122,11 @@ 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, -specifically executability. It can be dowloaded from the Windows web browser or from MSYS2 MinGW-w64 terminal. -This is different from the MSYS2 MSYS terminal used for package installation. +Download and decompress cpuminer-opt source code. Download the tar.gz file as it preserves file permissions, specifically executability. It can be dowloaded from the Windows web 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. The MSYS2 home directory can be accessed from Windows with C:\msys2\home\[USER]. +If Windows tools are preferred cpuminer-opt can be downloaded to the Windows Documents folder and accessed from MSYS2 MinGW-w64 terminal using the path /c/users/[USER]/documents. Notepad++ and 7zip are useful Windows programs with good support for Linux file formats. The MSYS2 home directory can be accessed from Windows with C:\msys2\home\[USER]. -Cpuminer-opt can be downloaded from the MSYS2 terminal using git or wget. Git will download the most recent source code, -it matches the latest release. +Cpuminer-opt can be downloaded from the MSYS2 terminal using git or wget. Git will download the most recent source code, it matches the latest release. `$ git clone https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt.git` @@ -219,8 +214,6 @@ Download and build other packages for mingw that don't have a mingw64 version av Download the following source code packages from their respective and respected download locations, copy them to $HOME/usr/lib/ and uncompress them. -openssl v1.1.1f: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases - curl v7.68.0: https://github.com/curl/curl/releases gmp v6.2.0: https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/ @@ -235,14 +228,6 @@ Some instructions insist on running "make check". If make check fails it may sti You can speed up "make" by using all CPU cores available with "-j n" where n is the number of CPU threads you want to use. -openssl: - -`$ ./Configure mingw64 shared --cross-compile-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32-` - -`$ make` - -Make may fail with an ld error, just ensure libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll is created. - curl: `$ ./configure --with-winssl --with-winidn --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32` @@ -269,8 +254,6 @@ Define some local variables to point to the local library. `$ export LOCAL_LIB="$HOME/usr/lib"` -`$ export LDFLAGS="-L$LOCAL_LIB/curl/lib/.libs -L$LOCAL_LIB/gmp/.libs -L$LOCAL_LIB/openssl"` - `$ export CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-curl=$LOCAL_LIB/curl --with-crypto=$LOCAL_LIB/openssl --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32"` Adjust for gcc version: @@ -292,11 +275,8 @@ recreated every time a source package is decompressed. `$ cp $GCC_MINGW_LIB/libgcc_s_seh-1.dll release/` -`$ cp $LOCAL_LIB/openssl/libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll release/` - `$ cp $LOCAL_LIB/curl/lib/.libs/libcurl-4.dll release/` - #### Download cpuminer-opt The following steps need to be done every time a new source package is @@ -349,8 +329,8 @@ directory to a Windows system and run cpuminer.exe from the command line. Run cpuminer -In a command windows change directories to the unzipped release folder. -to get a list of all options: +In a command window or Powershell change directories to the unzipped release folder. +To get a list of all options: $ cpuminer.exe --help