Compile XDAG miner for Mac intel

How to compile XDAG’s XMRIG fork miner for Mac intel (to 2020).

This tutorial is inspired by the documentation from the official XMRIG website (https://xmrig.com/docs/miner/build/macos) with some adaptations related to XDAG’s XMRIG fork.

Required : Mac intel to 2020 / Mac OS 10.15 or better

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1°) Install brew

Paste that in a macOS Terminal shell prompt :

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

After type your password, you should get this :

Press ENTER and wait till the end.

2°) Clone xmrig (xdag fork) sources

cd 
mkdir github && cd github
git clone --branch xdag https://github.com/swordlet/xmrig.git

You’ll get something like this :

Optional :

If you want building ‘0 fee’ release, you should edit (with VSCODE by example)/github/xmrig/src/donate.h and modify lines 40 & 41 like this :

3°) Build something

mkdir xmrig/build && cd xmrig/scripts
./build_deps.sh && cd ../build

And then you’ll get this result after few minutes :

4°) Build program

cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(pwd)/../scripts/deps

Result :

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

You should get this :

Check the result :

ls -l

File appear on last line

5°) Proof Of Work

Copy your usual config.json file, already containing your wallet address & goods settings pool.

Run it :

./xmrig

And ‘Hocus-pocus’ you should get this :

BRAVO ! You did it !!!

Many many thanks to :

• Spudz76 (https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/issues/3136)
• Swordlet (https://github.com/swordlet)