simple burstcoin miner for linux(even arm)

• Ported from miner-burst
• Tested on MacOS and Debian Wheezy.
• Uses the same config file as miner-burst

Note that CPU usage of the mining threads as well as speed (MiB/s) do not represent the correct value.

After cloning this repo change to it's folder:

cd minerpp

Then create a new folder named "bin":

mkdir bin

Change to the newly created folder:

cd bin

Before we can compile the source we need to generate our Makefile. For that we use CMake. If you don't have it, install it first (e.g. sudo apt-get install cmake). Then execute the CMake command:

cmake ..

Since we need std::filesystem support, gcc/g++ 5 is the minimum required compiler version for this to work. If you don't have it (check with gcc --version) you will need to install a newer version before using CMake.

For SBC's (Single Board Computer) use this link to get gcc/g++ 7.2.0. It will work on all common distros of linux for SBC's (was tested on Odroid HC1 with DietPi and Raspberry Pi 3+ with Raspbian Wheezy). On newer distro versions (e.g. Stretch) just install gcc-5 from your prefered package manager (e.g. sudo apt-get install gcc-5).

On MacOS the standard Clang compiler will not work! Here you will also need to install gcc manually. For that use the following command:

brew install gcc@7

If you successfully installed a newer compiler version you can run CMake with the following options:

cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=<path/to/gcc> -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=<path/to/g++> ..

Replace <path/to/gcc> with the path to your gcc installation (e.g. SBC: /usr/local/gcc-7.2.0/bin/gcc-7.2.0, MacOS /usr/local/bin/gcc-7) and <path/to/g++> with the path to your g++ installation (e.g. SBC: /usr/local/gcc-7.2.0/bin/g++-7.2.0, MacOS: /usr/local/bin/g++-7).

To compile the source code simply run make:

make -j<number of threads>

Replace <number of threads> with the number of threads you want to use to compile to speedup the process.

Now you can just run the miner with the following command:

./minerpp

Note you can use the same config file as used with blago's miner-burst, but it needs to be located in the same folder as the executable and named config.json.