This is the revised version of my previous post how to mine eth with gpu on your mac. It showed less performance than the devices can do and only worked with minergate pool.
I've tried compiling from source code and got better result than my previous one. I'm not sure all problems are solved, but it definitely shows improved result.
Let's do it.
1. Prerequisites
- XCode
I'm not sure whether it must be needed or not, but I think you have to install it to build from source code.
- Ethereum wallet address
I've tested with ethermine pool and dwarfpool with my own eth wallet address.
Now, open Terminal app and run the following commands.
2. Install CMake
You can skip this step if you already installed CMake on your system
2.1 Install Homebrew
You can skip this step if you already installed Homebrew or other package manager
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
2.2 Install CMake
$ brew install cmake
3.Get source code
3.1 Go to the directory where you want to download source code
I used my Desktop folder in this post. You can change it as you want.
$ cd ~/Desktop
3.2 Download source code from git repository
$ git clone https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer.git
3.3 Go to the source code directory
$ cd ethminer
4. Build from source code
4.1 Create a build directory
$ mkdir build; cd build
4.2 Configure the project with CMake
$ cmake ..
If you have NVidia GPU(s), you need to add more options
$ cmake .. -DETHASHCUDA=ON
4.3 Build the project using CMake Build Tool Mode
$ cmake --build .
You will get the result like below if you succeeded.
...
[ 0%] Built target BuildInfo.h
Scanning dependencies of target devcore
[ 4%] Building CXX object libdevcore/CMakeFiles/devcore.dir/CommonData.cpp.o
[ 8%] Building CXX object libdevcore/CMakeFiles/devcore.dir/FixedHash.cpp.o
[ 12%] Building CXX object libdevcore/CMakeFiles/devcore.dir/Log.cpp.o
[ 16%] Building CXX object libdevcore/CMakeFiles/devcore.dir/RLP.cpp.o
[ 20%] Building CXX object libdevcore/CMakeFiles/devcore.dir/SHA3.cpp.o
[ 24%] Building CXX object libdevcore/CMakeFiles/devcore.dir/Worker.cpp.o
[ 28%] Linking CXX static library libdevcore.a
[ 28%] Built target devcore
Scanning dependencies of target ethash
[ 32%] Building C object libethash/CMakeFiles/ethash.dir/internal.c.o
[ 36%] Building C object libethash/CMakeFiles/ethash.dir/sha3.c.o
[ 40%] Linking C static library libethash.a
[ 40%] Built target ethash
Scanning dependencies of target ethcore
[ 44%] Building CXX object libethcore/CMakeFiles/ethcore.dir/BlockHeader.cpp.o
[ 48%] Building CXX object libethcore/CMakeFiles/ethcore.dir/EthashAux.cpp.o
[ 52%] Building CXX object libethcore/CMakeFiles/ethcore.dir/Miner.cpp.o
[ 56%] Linking CXX static library libethcore.a
[ 56%] Built target ethcore
[ 60%] Generating OpenCL Kernel Byte Array
Scanning dependencies of target ethash-cl
[ 64%] Building CXX object libethash-cl/CMakeFiles/ethash-cl.dir/CLMiner.cpp.o
[ 68%] Linking CXX static library libethash-cl.a
[ 68%] Built target ethash-cl
Scanning dependencies of target ethstratum
[ 72%] Building CXX object libstratum/CMakeFiles/ethstratum.dir/EthStratumClient.cpp.o
[ 76%] Building CXX object libstratum/CMakeFiles/ethstratum.dir/EthStratumClientV2.cpp.o
[ 80%] Linking CXX static library libethstratum.a
[ 80%] Built target ethstratum
Scanning dependencies of target apicore
[ 84%] Building CXX object libapicore/CMakeFiles/apicore.dir/Api.cpp.o
[ 88%] Building CXX object libapicore/CMakeFiles/apicore.dir/ApiServer.cpp.o
[ 92%] Linking CXX static library libapicore.a
[ 92%] Built target apicore
Scanning dependencies of target ethminer
[ 96%] Building CXX object ethminer/CMakeFiles/ethminer.dir/main.cpp.o
In file included from /Users/soon/Desktop/ethminer/ethminer/main.cpp:26:
/Users/soon/Desktop/ethminer/ethminer/MinerAux.h:729:26: warning: variable
'completed' used in loop condition not modified in loop body
[-Wfor-loop-analysis]
for (unsigned i = 0; !completed; ++i)
^~~~~~~~~
/Users/soon/Desktop/ethminer/ethminer/MinerAux.h:814:27: warning: variable
'completed' used in loop condition not modified in loop body
[-Wfor-loop-analysis]
for (unsigned i = 0; !completed; ++i)
^~~~~~~~~
/Users/soon/Desktop/ethminer/ethminer/MinerAux.h:1071:11: warning: private field
'm_parallelHash' is not used [-Wunused-private-field]
unsigned m_parallelHash = 4;
^
3 warnings generated.
[100%] Linking CXX executable ethminer
[100%] Built target ethminer
Don't worry about the 'warning's.
5. Start mining
The executable file generated at ~/Desktop/ethminer/build/ethminer/. So go to that directory to run the miner.
$ cd ~/Desktop/ethminer/build/ethminer/
For dwarfpool
./ethminer -G -F http://eth-eu.dwarfpool.com/<YOUR_ETH_WALLET_ADDRES>
For ethermine pool
./ethminer --farm-recheck 200 -G -S eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -FS us1.ethermine.org:4444 -O <YOUR_ETH_WALLET_ADDRES>.<YOUR_RIG_NAME>
You should change <YOUR_ETH_WALLET_ADDRES> and <YOUR_RIG_NAME> to your own ones.
Nvidia users need to change -G to -U.
This is the result from my laptop (AMD 460).
...
m 02:06:09| Got work package: #8daa6843
cl 02:06:09|cl-1 New work: header #8daa6843… target 0000000225c17d04dad2965cc5a02a23e254c0c3f75d9178046aeb27ce1ca574
cl 02:06:09|cl-1 Switch time 81 ms / 180 us
m 02:06:09| Speed 5.97 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.97 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 02:06:10| Speed 5.98 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.98 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 02:06:12| Speed 5.88 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.88 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 02:06:13| Speed 5.98 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.98 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 02:06:15| Speed 5.88 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.88 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 02:06:17| Speed 6.03 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 6.03 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 02:06:19| Speed 5.91 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.91 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:20| Speed 6.01 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 6.01 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:21| Speed 5.93 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.93 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:23| Speed 5.95 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.95 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:24| Speed 5.94 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.94 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:26| Speed 5.94 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.94 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:27| Speed 5.95 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.95 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:29| Speed 5.95 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.95 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:30| Speed 5.94 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.94 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:32| Speed 5.95 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.95 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:33| Speed 5.95 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.95 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
m 02:06:35| Speed 5.95 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 gpu/1 5.95 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:01
It shows almost 6 MH/s. It's definitely better result than from my previous post (1.5 MH/s).
The good news is that you can boost this number a little bit. I'll write about it on my next post.
For advanced users
$ ./ethminer --help
will show you more detailed options that you can tweak.
For Nvidia users
I don't have Nvidia GPUs on my Mac, so I'm not sure the followings are needed, but try installing all of them if you have any troubles.
The latest NVIDIA CUDA driver
https://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html
The "web" driver appropriate for your macOS version
El Capitan: 10.11.6.
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/114670/en-us
Sierra: 10.12.3
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/117892/en-us
Please let me know
If you tried this, share your result with your hardware specs.
I know the Mac isn't the good machine for just mining purpose, but I did this for my curiosity.
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Hi soon8013. I found your post by chance in a search for Mac mining. I want to thank you for the detailed instructions. I was able to execute your instructions quite well. And while it did not work for me due to only having 2 GB in my Radeon R9 M370X on my 2015 MBP, I saw the potential of using this on other macs. My appreciation for you is that you did the leg work to have something for Mac computers when everything else is pretty much PC with a dab of Linux. Keep up the good work. I will be following.
Thanks. P.S. I'm starting a solar powered crytpo mining project if you're interested. Cheers!
Thank you, I have errors (new to terminal) I will paste my results.
CMake Error at /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.9.4_1/share/cmake/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake:649 (message):
Specify CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR
Call Stack (most recent call first):
libethash-cuda/CMakeLists.txt:1 (find_package)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/Users/brucewayne/Desktop/ethminer/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/Users/brucewayne/Desktop/ethminer/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
Bruces-MacBook-Pro:build brucewayne$ cmake --build .
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
Bruces-MacBook-Pro:build brucewayne$ cmake --build hh
I'm sorry that I can't answer to your question exactly because I don't have Nvidia GPU.
But try this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19980412/how-to-let-cmake-find-cuda
You may need to replace some path(s) to your own one.
And make sure cuda driver and web driver installed.
you have to install CUDA toolkit https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
hi same here. Did you fixed this issue?
you have to install CUDA toolkit https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
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Thanks for this guide! I am getting 8.2MH's on my 2017 15" MacBook Pro with the Radeon Pro 560. I have a sonnet eGPU enclosure attached with the included Sapphire RX580 8gb. It is getting just shy of 19MH/s with the stock firmware. I may try flashing a different firmware for faster hashing.
One note, at 8MH/s thats about $3 per week after subtracting the cost of the about 50w of power the computer consumes. Thats pretty impressive honestly for a laptop. It really is low power. The GPU only consumes 35w. Probably less power with the display off too.
Sounds cool! Thank you for sharing your result :)
So I updated to 10.13.2 today and it lowered my performance quite a bit. I recompiled but that did not help. Went down to 7.2MH/s on the RP570 and 14.8MH/s on the RX580. Any ideas how to solve this?
Try below on terminal before starting mining.
And it may be helpful adding '--cl-local-work 256' option to the end of your ethminer options.
That helped a tiny bit. Up to 7.8MH/s on the RP560 and 15.2MH/s on the RX580... This is just weird. The only thing that changed was the software update.
I'm sorry to say that maybe Apple has to optimize device drivers more for 10.13.2
I have almost the same set up and ran into the same issue ☹️
Tried it out. Yes you need to install XCode on your Mac and link your GitHub account.
... I did get the following error after step 4.2 and not sure how to proceed:
Michaels-MacBook-Pro:build michaelwickson$ cmake ..
-- [hunter] Initializing Hunter workspace (aafb99b93d466f963d53a39271f20d5074996cb0)
-- [hunter] https://github.com/ruslo/hunter/archive/v0.19.86.tar.gz
-- [hunter] -> /Users/michaelwickson/.hunter/_Base/Download/Hunter/0.19.86/aafb99b
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
[hunter ** INTERNAL **] Build project failed
[hunter ** INTERNAL **] [Directory:/Users/michaelwickson/Applications/ethminer]
------------------------------ WIKI -------------------------------
https://github.com/ruslo/hunter/wiki/error.internal
CMake Error at cmake/HunterGate.cmake:82 (message):
Call Stack (most recent call first):
cmake/HunterGate.cmake:92 (hunter_gate_wiki)
cmake/HunterGate.cmake:346 (hunter_gate_internal_error)
cmake/HunterGate.cmake:510 (hunter_gate_download)
CMakeLists.txt:12 (HunterGate)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
Nevermind ... i think i have it now
It's working now but all I get is a bunch of zeroes:
ℹ 16:32:06| Found suitable OpenCL device [ HD Graphics 4000 ] with 1610612736 bytes of GPU memory
ℹ 16:32:06| Connecting to stratum server us2.ethermine.org:4444
ℹ 16:32:06|stratum Connected to stratum server us2.ethermine.org : 4444
ℹ 16:32:06|stratum Starting farm
cl 16:32:06|cl-0 No work. Pause for 3 s.
ℹ 16:32:06|stratum Subscribed to stratum server
ℹ 16:32:06|stratum Authorized worker 0x5ead442ce3bf8089409d6415758def3e34f518e0.mrwickson
ℹ 16:32:06|stratum Received new job #2f790f64
m 16:32:06| Speed 0.00 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 16:32:06| Speed 0.00 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 16:32:07| Speed 0.00 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 16:32:07| Speed 0.00 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 16:32:07| Speed 0.00 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
m 16:32:07| Speed 0.00 Mh/s gpu/0 0.00 [A0+0:R0+0:F0] Time: 00:00
Does my MacBook have too old of a graphics card or is there a lag while a DAG file is downloaded?
Would you show me your result from this command?
Same problem .
Your result shows that your graphics device(Redeon Pro 455) has 2GB memory, and I think it's not enough to handle recent DAG file.
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