Author: James Swafford
Date: 05:13:26 12/16/01
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On December 15, 2001 at 22:21:37, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On December 15, 2001 at 21:36:42, Jeff Lischer wrote: > >>For fun, I've been trying to compile Bruce Moreland's Gerbil. I'm using the >>mingw32 gcc on windows. Now I see that the Gerbil makefile is set up for nmake >>and cl.exe. >> >>Does anyone know if there is a makefile for gcc that I can use instead? If not, >>are there any other ways to try compiling it in gcc? > >No. Someone sent me email telling me that they were doing this, but I don't >know if they necessarily got it working. > >There are two targets, gerbil.exe and epd2wb.exe. > >epd2wb.exe is build from epd2wb.c and answer.c, with just a normal console >program compile. > >gerbil.exe is built from everything in the winboard subdirectory and everything >in the engine subdirectory, same thing. > >There could be a small problem with __int64, which I use, and which could be >replaced by "long long" under Gnu. Gnu might also get mad about my "//" style >comments. > I can confirm that... I do this: #ifdef MSVC typedef unsigned __int64 Bitmap; #else typedef long long Bitmap; #endif I don' think gcc cares about " // ", but I'm actually using g++ now, so I can't remember for sure. >It is a Windows app, so it uses NT threads, but that has little to do with how >you'd build it. > >If someone wants to make a version that works under Linux or something, you'd >have my full support in a moral sense, meaning that I wouldn't tell you to go >away if you asked me questions, and I'd include the version in the Gerbil >release. Hmm... if nobody bites soon I'll look at it. :) > >bruce
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