Aha a missing step now I'm more hopeful. I downloaded the sdk and I have the following files/folder in ADL_SDK_6.0:
ADL_SDK.html
adlutil
include
Public-Documents
Sample
Sample-Managed
What should I put where?
Just dump all the contents (even so only 4 or so files are needed, I just dump 'em all in there) from ADL_SDK_6.0 that you downloaded into the ADL_SDK folder in your sgminer folder Let us know if that fixed it!
There was no ADL_SDK folder in my sgminer folder. Are you referring to building from source or are you talking about just being able to run the sgminer downloaded darkcoin.io home page? The sgminer downloaded from darkcoin.io already has an sgminer.exe so I assume it was already built. These are the files in that download (darkcoin-sgminer-windows.zip):
example.bat
example_280X.bat
example_280X.conf
kernel/
libcurl.dll
libeay32.dll
libidn-11.dll
libpdcurses.dll
pthreadGC2.dll
README.md
sgminer.exe
ssleay32.dll
zlib1.dll
I did create an ADL_SDK folder anyway and put those files there but that didn't do anything. Or am I completely missing the fact that I need to compile this myself? I was assuming that the windows download was a binary distribution
Eeek, I'm thinking Linux, so so so sorry! Lets back up, what is wrong, what is your system and your video card? And have you tried this version: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0
Using windows 7 64-bit, HD 5830, Catalyst 13.12 Driver. I'm not crazy about downloading random executables so I wanted to use the gpu miner linked to on the darkcoin.io homepage (I was assuming this was more official). However that seemed like an uphill battle to get it working. I finally succumbed and downloaded the sph-sgminer from http://dark.suchpool.pw/. It seems to be working well so far.