Quote from: Toomykins on June 23, 2017, 03:04:27 PM

I'm a relatively new to cryptocurrencies and having a few problems.
Mining would go fine on ypool a few years back, but since it's down I have had no success mining on other pools.
All the xptminers are confusing in that their build instructions say to git clone a different xptminer, in essence I don't really see the difference between the miner programs.
for instance the getting-started page on ublock.it tells you to get the source code at https://github.com/dave-andersen/fastrie, while the build instructions for the miner on that page tell me to get https://github.com/clintar/xptMiner.

Hm. Don't do that.

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Further following the instructions causes git to stop working because of the newer libgmp which libhogweed automatically makes use of, forcing you to delete the library libgmp.so.10 manually since you need git later on in the instructions.
Apparently deleting these libraries didn't matter since the xptminer succesfully built anyway without them.

Code:

./xptminer -o mine.ublock.it:5000 -t 4 -u toomykins.worker1 -p workerpass

pretty much exactly like how the website told me, gives me the following repeating message.

Code:

Connected to server using x.pushthrough(xpt) protocol
Connection to server lost - Reconnect in 45 seconds

Rebuilding using the newer libgmp gives the same message.
Building the actual git repo itself while somewhat ignoring the wrong build instructions gives me an error.

Did you check out the stratum branch?

https://github.com/dave-andersen/fastrie/tree/stratum

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Code:

Makefile:82: recipe for target 'xptMiner/xptClientPacketHandler.o' failed
make: *** [xptMiner/xptClientPacketHandler.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Makefile:82: recipe for target 'xptMiner/main.o' failed
make: *** [xptMiner/main.o] Error 1
Makefile:82: recipe for target 'xptMiner/xptClient.o' failed
make: *** [xptMiner/xptClient.o] Error 1
Makefile:82: recipe for target 'xptMiner/ticker.o' failed
make: *** [xptMiner/ticker.o] Error 1

I honestly don't know where to go from here. The currency itself is cool, but the documentation is absolutely horrible.
Using Ubuntu 16 to build, both stratum and master branches, I don't know what's causing my building to fail after following all instructions.

I've updated the README.md for the stratum branch -- go see if that's any happier:

https://github.com/dave-andersen/fastrie/tree/stratum/xptMiner

The build should be very straightforward now on Ubuntu.