macOS version

[FlorinAndrei]

Will there be a macOS version released any time soon?

I am specifically interested in GPU mining with AMD chips with 2 GB of memory.

[jcvernaleo]

Not sure what the situation is now but the reason we never did it before (when I was working on it) was that none of us had access to a mac with a GPU capable of mining. I only had access to some mac minis and a macbook air, none of which have anything interesting GPU wise.

[s-ben]

Hey @jcvernaleo (or anyone else still interested). I was able to get gominer built and running on my MacBook Pro (16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB video card). I was able to just use the Linux build commands:

go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/decred
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/decred
git clone  https://github.com/decred/gominer.git
cd gominer
dep ensure

I already had CUDA installed, so didn't try the Linux build instructions there, but they could just work as well.

NOTE: Using my 'NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M' graphics card, I was only able to get like 75 MH/s, which wasn't enough to catch any successful shares on supernova pool (didn't try others). Presumably due to higher difficulty due to ASICs.

[jcvernaleo]

Nice! I saw your PR with the instructions update in a little bit.

Yeah, unfortunately, we are probably pretty well into the ASIC realm not but I still prefer to have this working at least for testnet use.

[s-ben]

Right. I do also think that someone might be able to mine on some pools with a real GPU rig (not just a spare graphics card on a 5 yr old MacBook Pro (what I have)). We might want to add a warning here (or somewhere) though that it is unlikely to be profitable now, to save people from wasting time if they don't know the risks.

[s-ben]

P.S. I also do plan on using this to set up testnet mining. Think this could be useful for developers.

[davecgh]

Everything is on an entirely new hash function now so this doesn't apply anymore. Closing.

[davecgh]

Oops, wrong repo and issue.