We connect to the Raspiblitz and see the menu or the status screen (download or sync status) of the blockchain.
Here we now go out of the menu with CTRL + C and then into the directory where we want to have the mining folder later, in my case in the “home” directory
The cd command takes you to the directories, the ls or ls -ls command lists what is currently where you are.
There is currently no CG Mining folder in the home directory.
(By the way, with clear your screen will look attractive again).
First of all, we install the required packages for the CGMiner software, as described in Github, with:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libncurses5-dev screenscreen was only added because I work with it, but you have to see what suits you best.
Now we clone the mining software from Github to our Raspiblitz with:
sudo git clone https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer.git
⚠️ There are a number of old forks of the cgminer software, but also dubious new sources. Our documentation refers exclusively to the variant of kanoi as mentioned above. The developer is still actively involved in the further development of cgminer and is rated as trustworthy.
Now the cgminer folder is in our home directory:
Alternatively, you can create a folder for several versions of cgminer, e.g. /home/admin/Mining, if you want to run versions 4.12.0 and 4.12.1 alternately. To do this, you would have to create a Mining folder and after changing to this subdirectory using cd /home/admin/Mining you would have to execute the above git clone.... command there:
mkdir -p /home/admin/Miningcd /home/admin/Miningsudo git clone https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer.gitIf multiple versions are to be installed, it is recommended to rename the cgminer folder to e.g. /home/admin/Mining/cgminer_4.12.1. This can be done with mv /home/admin/Mining/cgminer /home/admin/Mining/cgminer_4.12.1 (prefix it with sudo if higher rights are required).
Now we change to the directory to start the configuration and compilation:
cd /home/admin/Mining/cgminersudo CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fcommon" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko --enable-icarusand then:
sudo makeAnd we are ready to operate the miner from the Raspiblitz.
There often seem to be problems with sudo make under Linux. The compilation process stops with the message that a missing library is being linked.
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz: No such file or directoryIt helps to find out which library is missing, reinstall it and repeat the above process. In our case, zliblg-dev is missing on Raspiblitz (Embedded Debian Linux).
sudo apt-get install zliblg-devAnd the compilation process completes without errors.
Of course, this applies similarly to other Linux distributions. The libraries may be called differently, e.g. under the regular Debian, for the sake of simplicity, look for the right library:
sudo apt-cache search zlib
...
zlib1g - Compression library - runtime
zlib1g-dev - Compression library - development
...With a bit of guesswork and internet research you should be able to do this similarly on other distributions. Now install again:
sudo apt-get install zlib1g zlib1g-devand then (hopefully without any further errors) configure and compile (autogen.sh and make).