Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 01:57:06 01/03/03
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On January 02, 2003 at 18:49:40, Christophe Theron wrote: >Sorry to bother you with this half off-topic post, but I know there are Linux >fans here, and maybe they can help me. > >And after all it's all about a chess program! > >I want to port Chess Tiger to Linux, and release it as a free engine (without >sources). Later I hope to make a commercial product out of it, when enough >people start to use Linux (will take anywhere between 2 and 10 years). > >But right now here is my problem: I am running RedHat Linux 8.0. I don't want to >use another distribution. I have chosen it because it has the biggest market >share (sorry, I know I am commercially-biased). > >I'm looking for a good IDE to run on my RH8. > >At this time I only need to develop console mode programs. > >I have tried RHIDE (the IDE I am using since 5 years under DOS/Windows and that >allowed me to develop the 32 bits version of Chess Tiger). > >Unfortunately RHIDE (1.4.9, latest available version from the author) does not >work under RH8. Under X (in xterm or konsole for example), most key assignments >do not work (impossible to select text with Shift-Arrow for example). In a pure >text console, it displays garbage (looks like the foreground/background color >combinations are interpreted by the console as page code changes or something >like that). Ugly. > You may download the sources of RHIDE and compile them on your RedHat. Or you may try the one I found here: http://linux.tucows.com/system/preview/8625.html Just look below "Download for" and "Also available", there is the link "RedHat i386 Stable". It is 1.4.7, but for RedHat. Here is someone having the same problem like you (RHIDE doesn't run on Redhat): http://www.gnu-pascal.de/crystal/gpc/en/mail3192.html Hope this helps. Alessandro
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