gevans / miner-install

Installs CGMiner, BFGMiner, or SGMiner.

miner-install

Forked from ruby-install and adapted to work with CGMiner and its myriad of forks.

Currently supports installation of CGMiner, BFGMiner, or SGMiner

Features

• Supports installing arbitrary versions.
• Supports installing into /opt/miners/ for root and ~/.miners/ for users by default.
• Supports installing into arbitrary directories.
• Supports downloading from arbitrary URLs.
• Supports downloading from mirrors.
• Supports downloading/applying patches.
• Supports specifying arbitrary ./configure options.
• Supports downloading archives using wget or curl.
• Supports verifying downloaded archives using md5sum, md5 or openssl md5.
• Supports installing build dependencies via the package manager:
  • apt
  • yum
  • pacman
  • macports
  • brew
• Has tests. Sorry...

Anti-Features

• Does not require updating every time a new miner version comes out.
• Does not require recipes for each individual miner version or configuration.
• Does not support installing trunk/HEAD.

Requirements

• bash >= 3.x
• wget or curl
• md5sum, md5 or openssl md5.
• tar
• patch (if --patch is specified)
• gcc >= 4.2 or clang

Synopsis

List supported Rubies and their major versions:

$ miner-install

Install the current stable version of CGMiner:

$ miner-install cgminer

Install a latest version of SGMiner:

$ miner-install sgminer 4.1

Install a specific version of BFGMiner:

$ miner-install bfgminer 3.10.0

Install a miner into a specific directory:

$ miner-install -i /usr/local/ cgminer 3.7.2

Install a miner with a specific patch:

$ miner-install -p https://raw.github.com/gist/4136373/falcon-gc.diff cgminer 4.1.0

Install a miner with a specific configuration:

$ miner-install bfgminer -- --enable-shared --enable-dtrace CFLAGS="-O3"

System-wide Install

git clone https://github.com/gevans/miner-install.git
cd miner-install
sudo make install