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I need a windows (7 32) version of cgminer to mine with BFL and Icarus. Unzip and ready to mine. Pay 5 bitcoins.

why won't the current binaries work?

They will.  

Here are some steps for you:

1.  Download this - http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/cgminer-2.3.1-2-win32.zip
2.  Unpack it
3.  Run it
4.  ....
5.  Profit.

If you're stuck for which commands to use, create a new text file, rename it to run.bat, right click and edit it, enter the following:

cgminer -o http://yourpooladdress:portnumber -u yourusername -p yourpass -S COM7 --disable-gpu

COM7 in the above is the COM port your BFL or whatever is installed on.  It'll show you this in a bubble down the bottom right when you plug in your BFL, or you can go to Device Manager to find out the COM port.    Use the --disable-gpu flag on the end if you don't want to mine with your GPU's as well, obviously ;)


Or you can just use this - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3486.0 which I believe detects the COM port automatically for you.

Hi thanks for the hints. I don't have a BFL yet. Only one Icarus. Have you guys tested it with Icarus ?

Edit: Not working with Icarus ! It has to work with both of them.

Not personally, but I know it works.

Nope !

Right, you probably need one of the forks.

Try ufasoft in the mean time (link in the above post).  It's no slower or faster than cgminer.

FYPFY.

I'm running it right now.  Must be magic.

Oops, I claimed in another thread that official cgminer Windows binaries are without FPGA support and thought this will have to wait until Con is back. That's the price to pay for not following bitcointalk 24/7  :-[

Sorry for that, Turbor.

I'd like to at least approve that the given binary works, but it does not work without OCL dlls and I can't install them in my VirtualBox guest system  :(

Icarus does NOT work with cgminer i have !

You probably need Kanos fork.  The pre built binaries work fine with the BFL devices though.

Yes, that's where the winner of the bounty comes into play.

Tried Ufasoft yet?  No idea if it works but its worth the 5 mins it'll take to find out.

I think ufa is for BFL only.

The bounty is now for a total of 7.5 Bitcoins, I'm adding 2.5 BTC. I want the same thing. Unzip and go, no compiling. I don't care who's feelings get hurt, I just want a binary and it's gotta be cgminer.

http://www.mediafire.com/?96tru91ydhlgrjt

Send bounty to:
1xMs3fAkdo5dPvFSyxwFfRkmDPE43Jgii
Thanks

Yes you need it from my fork :)

Also you will need another change if you have both ... that's not done yet since the BFL check can hang on an Icarus sometimes and since I don't have both I'm not 100% sure of the circumstances that cause it.

Luke-jr hacked a fix to be able to say the device name on the front for bitforce but it's not done very nicely.

At the moment, if you do have problems with a windows version, it might actually be best to have 2 instances each compiled with the different device:
1 for Bitforce and 1 for Icarus
And in each case only specify the devices that match

Edit: I've got the commits for the first part waiting to go into the main cgminer git but my commits have been waiting for 12 days now ... :(

Do you have an Icarus running with that download ? What are the options i need to enter in the conf beside "scan-serial" : "COMX" ? First test did not work with Icarus. Can anyone confirm ?

That comment meant I certainly wasn't interested in making a binary ...

The Icarus code was written by Xiangfu and I helped debug it.
It was based on the Bitforce code that Luke-jr wrote, but did require quite a few changes.

It still needs more work on it but the lack of commits getting into cgminer at the moment has made me work on my Notify app instead when I have time :P

Looks like we have to sit and wait. I hope Con will make it available in the near future. Not that i'm in a rush, i have working mining software for all my hardware but i prefer an all in one solution.

append -S auto into the Target field in windows shortcut properties when you make a shortcut to the cgminer executable.
If that doesn't work try specifying both: -S COM5 -S COM3

Nope ... "-S auto" does nothing in windows :P

Does not work. I know that Icarus is on port 4. I assume you mine with 7970s ?

How do you know?

Try this one
http://www.mediafire.com/?8tzd26n1qt4i1ra

Still doesn't seem to be working:
https://i.imgur.com/j8nBk.png

I'd suggest you update the bounty to say that they must run it on windows also and make sure it works :)

Well, I'm not going to pay a bounty till I get a miner that works, so I think that takes care of it. :)

If you did all the work already and the cgminer guy finally makes a binary for it maybe we can do a split bounty or something.

+1 i feel free to test the software before i pay the bounty.

;D the .bin says Tahiti...

after reading this thread My guess is that no body has   cgminer and icarus running under windows  ---

BFL only at this stage I guess.   Con seems to be back now so I'm sure we'll see a new revision soon.

I'm not really back. I come once a week to answer questions. I'll be back when my hardware is back online (PSU death).

My 5 BTC have been paid to ckolivas for his cgminer 2.3.2 build.