Re: [XBoard-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Fix segfault with 'Game List Tags' dialogue

[Tim Mann]

WinBoard ran fine under wine the last time I tried it, though that was a long time ago.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Adam <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 08:09:57PM +0100, H.G. Muller wrote:
>
>
> Thomas Adam schreef op 3/21/2015 om 2:06 PM:
> >The winboard/makefile.gcc file suggests that it can be cross-compiled, yet
> >it's clearly not received any love for sometime, since there's calls to
> >-mno-cygwin which have been deprecated options to GCC---and in more recent
> >versions have been completely removed (hence 'make -f makefile.gcc' now
> >errors out).
>
> The WinBoard binary that I distribute is compiled by gcc 3.4.4 for that
> reason.
> Newer versions indeed did not seem to work, and I never could figure out how
> to
> produce a native Windows binary with those. So I stuck to 3.4.4, which does
> the job fine.

Ick, this is indeed a problem then.  I appreciate that's not your fault,
but I would urge you to perhaps revisit getting that to work under a
newer GCC version.  I could do this when I'm done with other things.

> I think that as long as you don't alter the prototypes (other than in
> style), and don't shuttle
> functional code between files shared with WinBoard to files only used in
> XBoard,
> you should be OK. When in doubt, it is easy enough for me to try if it still
> compiles under Cygwin and let you know if there are problems.

Okey-dokey, that sounds OK.  Thanks!  Did you say you were going to push
to Savannah at some point>

-- Thomas Adam

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