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pooler / cpuminer

CPU miner for Litecoin and Bitcoin
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trying --url= (or -o) just prints help message #231

Closed skinny-pete closed 3 years ago

skinny-pete commented 3 years ago

hi, any attempt to use --url or -o and entering a URL prints "Try `minerd --help' for more information", as if the syntax was wrong. Built on ubuntu 22.04, no build errors. To prevent confusion, this is the command I use to attempt to start it: ./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://ltc-eu.f2pool.com:8888 --userpass=workerid:password obviously replacing workerid:password with the real credentials. I have tried every variant you can imagine including copy pasted from known-working forum posts and documentations, every time I try to use the --url or -o option, it prints the 'try minerd --help' string

pooler commented 3 years ago

./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://ltc-eu.f2pool.com:8888 --userpass=workerid:password

I'm unable to reproduce. The command you provided gives me no error at all, and the miner starts as expected. Are you adding any other options by any chance? I just glanced at the code, and unless I'm missing something, if you're not passing any other options it doesn't seem possible that the miner doesn't give a more specific error message.

skinny-pete commented 3 years ago

No nothing else, and like I said I've tried -o, --url and some other syntaxes I found on forums, but same result every time cpuminer

(I've tried this with the real credentials of course too)

pooler commented 3 years ago

I was assuming you were using a recent version, but I see it's actually version 2.2.3, which is from 2012. Stratum support was introduced in version 2.3, so it's only normal that it's not working.

skinny-pete commented 3 years ago

my apologies, I must have been copying the git clone from an old forum post, thank you for your time.