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This is a multi-threaded CPU miner for Litecoin and Bitcoin,
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fork of Jeff Garzik's reference cpuminer.
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License: GPLv2. See COPYING for details.
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Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/files/
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Git tree: https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer
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Dependencies:
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libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
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jansson http://www.digip.org/jansson/
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(jansson is included in-tree)
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Basic *nix build instructions:
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./autogen.sh # only needed if building from git repo
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./nomacro.pl # in case the assembler doesn't support macros
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./configure CFLAGS="-O3" # Make sure -O3 is an O and not a zero!
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make
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Notes for AIX users:
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* To build a 64-bit binary, export OBJECT_MODE=64
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* GNU-style long options are not supported, but are accessible
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via configuration file
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Basic Windows build instructions, using MinGW:
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Install MinGW and the MSYS Developer Tool Kit (http://www.mingw.org/)
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* Make sure you have mstcpip.h in MinGW\include
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If using MinGW-w64, install pthreads-w64
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Install libcurl devel (http://curl.haxx.se/download.html)
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* Make sure you have libcurl.m4 in MinGW\share\aclocal
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* Make sure you have curl-config in MinGW\bin
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In the MSYS shell, run:
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./autogen.sh # only needed if building from git repo
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LIBCURL="-lcurldll" ./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
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make
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Architecture-specific notes:
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ARM: No runtime CPU detection. The miner can take advantage
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of some instructions specific to ARMv5E and later processors,
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but the decision whether to use them is made at compile time,
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based on compiler-defined macros.
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To use NEON instructions, add "-mfpu=neon" to CFLAGS.
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PowerPC: No runtime CPU detection.
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To use AltiVec instructions, add "-maltivec" to CFLAGS.
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x86: The miner checks for SSE2 instructions support at runtime,
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and uses them if they are available.
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x86-64: The miner can take advantage of AVX, AVX2 and XOP instructions,
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but only if both the CPU and the operating system support them.
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* Linux supports AVX starting from kernel version 2.6.30.
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* FreeBSD supports AVX starting with 9.1-RELEASE.
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* Mac OS X added AVX support in the 10.6.8 update.
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* Windows supports AVX starting from Windows 7 SP1 and
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
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The configure script outputs a warning if the assembler
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doesn't support some instruction sets. In that case, the miner
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can still be built, but unavailable optimizations are left off.
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The miner uses the VIA Padlock Hash Engine where available.
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Usage instructions: Run "minerd --help" to see options.
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Connecting through a proxy: Use the --proxy option.
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To use a SOCKS proxy, add a socks4:// or socks5:// prefix to the proxy host.
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Protocols socks4a and socks5h, allowing remote name resolving, are also
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available since libcurl 7.18.0.
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If no protocol is specified, the proxy is assumed to be a HTTP proxy.
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When the --proxy option is not used, the program honors the http_proxy
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and all_proxy environment variables.
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Also many issues and FAQs are covered in the forum thread
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dedicated to this program,
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0
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