macOS Installation: XMRig (Crypto Miner Software)

[macminergod]

XMRig is a high performance, open source, cross platform RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and AstroBWT CPU/GPU miner, RandomX benchmark and stratum proxy.


Install XMRig on macOS


Update: You can download and install already to use XMRig here.



1. Install Homebrew. Open Terminal and type:

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/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. After Homebrew installation completes, install XMRIG. In Terminal, type:

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brew install cmake libuv openssl hwloc

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git clone https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig.git

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mkdir xmrig/build && cd xmrig/build

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cmake .. -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/opt/openssl

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make -j$(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)

3. Next, we need to create a configuration file for XMRig. The XMRig site offers a configuration wizard. Go to https://xmrig.com/wizard and click New Configuration -> Add Pool.


4. Enter your Monero (XMR) wallet address and choose your location the click Add Pool.

5. Select Backends. Choose which backends to use for mining crypto on your Mac. Select CPU, if you have an AMD graphics card choose OpenCL, if you have a NVIDIA graphics card choose CUDA.

6. Select Misc. Choose your donation rate back to the developers. You can set this to 0.0% if you choose but will have to be manually edited in the configuration file after.

7. Select Result. Click the download icon to save the configuration file. This will download a file called config.json.

8. Now, move the config.json file to your XMRig installation. Go to

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/Hard Drive/Users/user/xmrig/build/

and move the file into the build folder.

Xmrig Configuration Macos New Configuration Config File Build Folder (57.56 KiB) Viewed 89343 times

Run XMRig on macOS


1. Open Terminal and navigate to the XMRig install folder:

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cd /Users/user/xmrig/build 

2. Start XMRIg. Type:

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./xmrig

3. XMRig will start mining immediately. If you enabled GPU benchmarking in your configuration file, XMRig will begin compiling your hardware to mine.

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How To Check Your Earnings:


1. You need to visit your minerpool website to check your earnings. In most cases, you only need to provide your wallet address to find your workers and earnings report. You can see an example below of a minerpool and earnings:

[amj]

mine RVN (KawPow) please

[macminergod]

mine RVN (KawPow) please

Hi, have you tried KawPowMiner? I can do an install guide for it.

[amj]

After successfully building, i faced these issues

macbook pro 16" (AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4GB) - Big Sur 11.2.2

kawpowminer 1.2.3+commit.6defed0d
Build: darwin/release/appleclang

i 19:37:56 Configured pool rvn.cruxpool.com:9999
i 19:37:56 Selected pool rvn.cruxpool.com:9999
i 19:37:57 Stratum mode : Stratum
i 19:37:57 Established connection to rvn.cruxpool.com [144.217.180.180:9999]
i 19:37:57 Spinning up miners...
i 19:37:57 Extranonce set to 330b
i 19:37:57 New target set to: 000000027d800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
i 19:37:57 Epoch : 223 Difficulty : 1.72 Gh
i 19:37:57 Job: 67cf4da5… block 1673861 rvn.cruxpool.com [144.217.180.180:9999]
cl 19:37:58 cl-0 Creating buffers
cl 19:37:58 cl-0 Using PciId : AMD Radeon Pro 5500M Compute Engine OpenCL 1.2 Memory : 3.98 GB
i 19:37:58 cl-0 Adjusting CL work multiplier for 24 CUs. Adjusted work multiplier: 21846
i 19:37:58 Authorized worker RXkG5ufiW8wTUaeYA9sADw6tmcyZ84KFLG.amr
cl 19:37:58 cl-0 Unable to lower compiler priority.
X 19:37:58 cl-0 OpenCL kernel build log:
:220:6: warning: no previous prototype for function 'keccak_f800_round'
void keccak_f800_round(uint32_t st[25], const int r)
^
:265:10: warning: no previous prototype for function 'keccak_f800'
uint64_t keccak_f800(uint32_t* st)
^
:272:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
}
^
:284:10: warning: no previous prototype for function 'kiss99'
uint32_t kiss99(kiss99_t* st)
^
:296:6: warning: no previous prototype for function 'fill_mix'
void fill_mix(local uint32_t* seed, uint32_t lane_id, uint32_t* mix)
^
:409:18: error: passing 'uint32_t *' (aka 'unsigned int *') to parameter of type '__local uint32_t ' (aka '__local unsigned int ') changes address space of pointer
fill_mix(share[group_id].uint32s, lane_id, mix);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:296:31: note: passing argument to parameter 'seed' here
void fill_mix(local uint32_t seed, uint32_t lane_id, uint32_t mix)
^
:491:9: warning: 'FNV_PRIME' macro redefined
#define FNV_PRIME 0x01000193
^
:185:9: note: previous definition is here
#define FNV_PRIME 0x1000193
^
:537:26: warning: unknown OpenCL extension 'cl_amd_media_ops' - ignoring
#pragma OPENCL EXTENSION cl_amd_media_ops : enable
^
:542:16: warning: implicit declaration of function 'amd_bitalign' is invalid in C99
return amd_bitalign((vv).xy, (vv).yx, 32 - r);
^

X 19:37:58 cl-0 OpenCL kernel build error (-11):
clBuildProgram
cl 19:37:59 cl-0 Loaded period 557953 progpow kernel
cl 19:37:59 cl-0 Unable to lower compiler priority.
X 19:37:59 cl-0 OpenCL kernel build log:

[amj]

hint:

try to build with forked: https://github.com/hwh57/kawpowminer

cd desktop
git clone https://github.com/hwh57/kawpowminer
cd kawpowminer
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DETHASHCL=ON -DETHASHCUDA=OFF
make -sj $(nproc)

the original "kawpowminer" got some issues when building !!

[amj]

error CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE when calling clBuildProgram

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after build

[macminergod]

after build

error CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE when calling clBuildProgram

My understanding is OPENCl and Xmrig won’t work, very depreciated in macOS. I looked on GitHub and everyone has same issue with Mac GPU’s. Need to compile Ethminer, which I’m working on and will document M1 and AMD mining speeds

[gerumanium]

is something wrong? help me please.

[macminergod]

is something wrong? help me please.

You don't need brew to install, use the compiled version from XMRig. It runs out of the box

[val3rie]

So it's not possible to mine with xmrig using the GPU?