Re: Question.

[Simon Waters]

"Sternbach, William [IT]" wrote:
> 
> I download the gnu chess 5.04.
> 
> I have a Compaq Pentium III 733 MHZ PC with 384 MB of Ram
> running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional.
> 
> I have the Mingw GNU C/C++ compiler version 2.95.2 installed.
> 
> It seems like the documentation and makefile for installing GNU chess
> is for Unix.  How can I compile and link the Gnu Chess on my Intel based PC
> using the Mingw Gnu c/c++ compiler?

We only build and test on Win32 architectures using Cygwin. On
Cygwin the procedure is "./configure ; make". I believe that
"-mno-cygwin" may also work, although the Cygwin environment is
not a substantial overhead on Windows for GNU Chess AFAIK, as
the main performance issues are all CPU/memory issues.

Others may have built GNU Chess with Mingw in the past, but I
haven't received a maintainable patch of the required changes.

BTW: Test versions of 5.05 are available at
http://www.wretched.demon.co.uk/505

Executable versions of the 5.05 test version have been made
available by a couple of contributors to the gnu.chess
newsgroup.

At this point I've received no reports that would prevent this
5.05 test release from proceeding to become an official 5.05
release.

 Simon