Author: William Bryant
Date: 08:38:04 09/03/00
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On September 03, 2000 at 02:45:37, Will Singleton wrote: >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 Will, Are you refering to compiling on Windows, or both Windows and Mac. Screamer always compiles with full optimizations without problems. Crafty chokes th compiler with the file 'options.c' which I compile on level 2 optimizations, the rest of the program on full opitmizations. William wbryant@ix.netcom.com
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