Author: Ralf Elvsén
Date: 13:21:56 08/02/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 13:52:42, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On August 02, 2001 at 13:29:20, Jonas Cohonas wrote: > >>I have finally decided to start writing my own chessengine and i have seen >>over and over again that C++ is the "right" language to use, my question is: > >Why C++? You can do it in C just fine. I think is just a matter of taste. > >>Can Borland C++ Builder 5 Standard version be used to write a chessengine? >>If it can not what program do i need? >>Does anyone have experience with that program? >> >>I saw it at an affordable 110$ at my local software dealer and decided to ask >>all the bright minds here who might have some inside info. > >Try first cygwin or djgpp that have a better price (free). Both are ports >of GCC to windows (cygwin) or DOS (djgpp). I used them both and I was happy with >those. Anyway, both work well in console mode in windows. In fact, Christophe >Theron said that he uses it for development. If you use either of this, a good >GUI is RHIDE, it comes with the package of djgpp IIRC. There is another port of >GCC for windows which is mingw which I never use. > >http://www.cygwin.com >http://www.delorie.com > >When I wanted a faster compiler, Dann Corbit recommended me Microsoft Visual C++ >6.0 professional version, that comes with the optimizer (not the standard). I >bought it at academic price and I am happy about that one too. He claims that >the intel compiler is sometimes better but it is too expensive for me. > >Anyway, if you are interested in Borland, they have a free compiler (that comes >without the GUI) in the web site. > >Hope this helps, >Miguel >PS: I believe that djgpp + rhide is an excellent combo for starters! That's >how I started to learn C and chess programming (I cannot claimed I learned it >yet). It has pretty good documentation on the web and there is a newsgroup >you can ask anything about it! djgpp + rhide is good if one is lucky to get a stable installation. I think Win2000 can be a problem but WinMe is fine (or was it the other way around?). You better check this yourself. I absolutely hated rhide first but when I got used to it I liked it. It runs excellently on my WIN95. Not so well on Win NT, but YMMV. Jonas: I know a tutorial for RHIDE on the web, in swedish :) You are danish, right? It is like "click here, then type this..." I can dig up the link if you want it. Ralf > >> >>Thanks in advance >>Jonas
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