Re: [XBoard-devel] C89/C99/ANSI compliance - cleanups needed?

[H.G. Muller]

The only solution I can see is that you would do what you thinks needs 
to be done
in small chunck, so that after each one I can test of the code still 
builds for WinBoard.

But it should not be that difficult for you to test if WinBoard would 
still compile,
(as opposed to link). If you can compile *.c in the winboard directory 
with "gcc -c"
and the *.c files in the base directory with "gcc -c -DWIN32", and don't 
move any code
from the shared backend files to the XBoard front-end (e.g. from 
engineoutput.c
to nengineoutput.c) it should be more or less OK. The only problem could 
be a few
Windows-specific headers, like windows.h, but I am sure we could sent 
these to you
(e.g. from Cygwin, which I use to build WinBoard) so that you can put 
them on your
system together with the other includes.

H.G.

Op 1/11/2016 om 9:58 PM schreef Thomas Adam:
> On 29 March 2015 at 18:34, Arun Persaud <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Sounds like a good plan, we can always need more people to help with the
> > code base and cleaning up the code a bit would be great.
> So... almost a year later... whoops.
>
> I'm still here---the reason I've not done anything development-wise,
> is I'm finding having the windows port in XBoard a hindrance, so I've
> no way of testing if my changes work/or break it.  Plus, I think it
> unacceptable to leave that to those who can look at this, to fix
> things.
>
> Can anyone advise on the best course of action?
>
> -- Thomas Adam