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Subject: Re: Arasan now under Linux

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 23:45:37 09/02/00

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On September 02, 2000 at 23:54:32, Jon Dart wrote:

>Arasan has been a Windows-only program since its original release in
>1994. I now have a port of the chess engine (not the GUI) that runs
>under Linux using xboard. It is pretty much identical in terms of
>algorithms and evaluation to the released Windows version but has
>a few bug fixes and tweaks.
>
>One of the motivations for doing this port is that I've had a lot of
>problems with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. In fact Visual C++
>6.0 can't compile Arasan correctly using full optimization. I've been
>stuck on version 5.0 of VC++ for a while and even that requires some
>hacks to make it build right.
>
<snip>

I've never been able to compile mine with full optimization.  I can't tell if
it's due to some coding problem or if the compiler is just weird.  Or perhaps it
just chess progs that won't optimize. :)

Will



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