Going to go a head and guess you are using windows ... if so you would have to compile ocminers source (ie make an .exe) and I have no clue how you would do that. (sorry)
[edit] if you are brave you can try the
basic Windows build instructions from the readme. looks straightforward(ish)
truth is though no one is using the pool and the standalone miner is not that much faster (if at all) then the in wallet miner. So really, you can just keep solo mining in your wallet right now.
Yes, lol. I'm using Windows. I searched the internet for the reason why it wasn't working, it's hard to believe it was that simple, but no one has asked before.
I'm really new to mining. I can setgenerate true, and get logs, with my CPU, which is great. It's the first time I've been able to mine (chop) something.
I tried doing the pool thing with minerd and get the error: minderd: unknown algorthim -- 'skein'. I've tried about 4 or 5 different types of minderd programs I've found scattered on the internet and I pretty much get the same error every time. But some said they weren't compatible with my computer (32 bit vs 64 bit, even though I'm sure I downloaded the 32-bit ones if it said one or the other).
It would be nice to get it going if the only way to get logs is through pools someday, but maybe my computer just can't... I don't know. Anyone have any theories?
To chop wood you need to be doing a specific hash function: double skein. This is slightly different than skeincoin which uses one skein hash and then a SHA256. The only version of minerd I have tested that has the option for double skein mining is the one ocminer gave us back in the first couple days:
https://github.com/ocminer/skeincoin-cpuminerHe forked a skeincoin cpu miner and if you look at his commit, you can see he replaced the SHA256 with a second round of skein.
I started working on a fork of gpu miner (thanks for testing that billotronic). Unfortunately it is a little more involved than I realized. I spoke with reorder who had authored the skeincoin gpu miner and he told me I would need to reimplement the full skein function in CL because the skeincoin algo only required midstate skein. It's unclear how much of a performance boost GPU mining will give us. Certainly less than for SHA256 based coins and probably less than Scrypt coins too.
Ah, well then, I'll continue with my setgenerate true for mining, it's still working well for me for now.
Thanks again.