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Subject: Re: Xboard Engines, Crafty and GNUChess

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:26:48 07/21/04

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On July 20, 2004 at 22:31:55, Eric Jensen wrote:

>I am having trouble compiling crafty 19.15 from the command line... running a G4
>powerbook w/ X11 now, and Xboard (thanks mostly to help i've recieved here), but
>every time i try to compile crafty for example "gcc .../crafty.c -o .../crafty"
>I get the error message that it cannot find file "stropts.h" Any suggestions?
>

You can't compile crafty like that.  You need to use the makefile instead, as
there are many -DXXXX type macro definitions that are needed.


>Also: with GNUChess 5.07, when i try to build the opening book w/ the
>book_1.01.pgn from the GNU website, it says that there are improper characters
>in the file stream.  I don't think that i've accidentally added anything to the
>pgn file in the way of text formatting... do I need to delete the header files
>from the games?? That seems highly unlikely since that would be an arduous task
>in a pgn database of 180,000+ games.



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