Mining Verium Reserve on SPARC/Solaris

I had some Solaris boxes laying around and I thought I could use them in my mining journey.

After some researches, I found that CPU mining is not profitable anymore, but on Bitcointalk someone hinted me that I could try mining Verium Reserve (VRM), so I went deep into that.

Sadly, Solaris is not well supported by mining software, the only one I have managed to make work is this one:

https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer/

which supports scrypt and sha256.

It is needed to install this packages:

pkg install --accept git curl jansson gcc automake autoconf

and then clone the git tree:

git clone https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer

we have to copy the jansson libs into the cpuminer directory:

cp /usr/include/jansson/jansson* cpuminer/

after that, we can configure it and make :)

./autogen.sh;
./configure CFLAGS="-O3";
make

now we can happly mine with our Sparc box with:

./minerd -a scrypt:1048576 -o stratum+tcp://yourhost -u xxx -p yyy