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Monero (XMR) NVIDIA miner
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Add Support for Linux #301

Open AymenStudios opened 5 years ago

AymenStudios commented 5 years ago

When adding support for this feature on Linux platforms this will be great

Spudz76 commented 5 years ago

what? compile it

There is only a Windows release binary because it is extra, extra, extra difficult to set up a Windows compiler and all the dependencies correctly to build your own. And Windows is better about running things that weren't compiled locally. For Linux binaries we would have to compile a different one for every variant of GLIBC and etc, "static" compile doesn't work for some core libraries, and Linux libraries change pretty often, so there is less of a "portable exe" in the Linux world as compared to Windows. Also there are not 40 different distros of Windows (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, RedHat, CentOS... and so on) with different blends of libraries included.

It is easy to compile on Linux, and easy to get the proper prerequisites quickly. Just follow the build instructions.