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I am running mining on Windows 10 Pro in Microsoft Azure using MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit.

My process to mine currently is:

  1. OPEN a MSYS2 terminal (lets call this MSYS2 A), navigate to appropriate directory and run ./monerod --offline

  2. OPEN another terminal of MSYS2 (lets call this MSYS2 B), navigate to appropriate directory and run ./monero-wallet-cli. Follow the instructions for loading a wallet. Enter start_mining [thread count]

  3. Go back MSYS2 A, and run show_hr

My question: Is there any way to automate the process of starting mining in MSYS2 windows e.g. something equivalent of having a .bat file in a CMD window in a start menu.

Bonus question: Is there any way to be alerted if mining fails and to automatically restart the service?

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  • Scheduled Tasks pointing to the .bat or PowerShell script? I'm sure PS can monitor running processes and alert and restart if they stop. (I'm more a bash guy then PowerShell, so can't help much more then that. But i'm positive its do-able)
    – Dave
    Jul 4, 2018 at 10:56
  • its not .bat or PowerShell. Its MSYS2 which is the pre-requisite for mining monero
    – James
    Jul 4, 2018 at 11:32
  • "Its MSYS2 which is the pre-requisite for mining monero" <= It's not.
    – dEBRUYNE ♦
    Jul 4, 2018 at 14:28
  • MSYS2 is a pre-requisite for mining on windows. See github.com/monero-project/monero "On Windows: Binaries for Windows are built on Windows using the MinGW toolchain within MSYS2 environment. The MSYS2 environment emulates a POSIX system. The toolchain runs within the environment and cross-compiles binaries that can run outside of the environment as a regular Windows application. Preparing the build environment Download and install the MSYS2 installer..."
    – James
    Jul 6, 2018 at 9:08

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MSYS2 is needed to build on windows.
However, you can mine directly within the regular windows command line, that's what i am doing.
So you might be able to create a bat file to:

  • Launch monerod
  • Start mining to your address within monerod, or in another window with monero-wallet-cli.

Try something like:

cd <path/to/monerod/folder>
:loop
monerod.exe --start-mining <address> --mining-threads <threads>
goto loop

For more sophisticated stuffs, try using "expect" to start "show_hr".

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