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Subject: Re: how to use polyglot?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:59:05 01/03/06

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On January 03, 2006 at 06:46:10, George Sobala wrote:

>On January 03, 2006 at 06:17:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>From the readme file:
>>
>>PolyGlot should have its own directory.  The INI files for engines
>>should also be put there.
>>
>>I do not understand it
>>
>>How polyglot knows which INI file is relevant in case of more than one file?
>>
>>I read later in the readme file
>>
>>Note that PolyGlot
>>will look for the INI file in the current directory.  If no <INI file>
>>is given, "polyglot.ini" is selected.
>>
>>I do not understand it.
>>
>>How can I give polyglot ini file?
>>I have no polyglot.ini in the directory of polyglot or in the download so how
>>can it select polyglot.ini?
>>
>>I usually run winboard programs under winboard simply by batch files(an
>>alternative way that I know to run winboard programs under winboard is by
>>putting both exe files on the winboard directory and writing the names of the
>>programs in the winboard startup.
>>
>>Here is an example for a batch file
>>
>>For some reason that part that tell movei to play position number 20 in both
>>sides against rybka does not work and the part that tell it to do the same thing
>>against gerbil works.
>>
>>Note that I modified the name of the exe file of rybka to Rybka.exe and I have
>>only one ini file in the polyglot directrory that I expect polyglot to use.
>>
>>The polyglot directory is d:\moveiengines\polyglot and I have also cygwin1.dll
>>at that file.
>>
>>
>>I can post the content of my Rybka.ini file if people tell me that the problem
>>is in that file but I guess that it is not the problem and polyglot simply does
>>not know which ini file to use inspite of the fact that there is only one ini
>>file.
>>
>>Note that the error that I get is the following error:
>>
>>"The procedure enty point_impure_ptr could not be located in the dynamic link
>>library cygwin1.dll"
>>
>>FOR %%P IN (20) DO start /w winboard.exe /mg=2 /tc=1 /autoCallFlag true
>>/ponderNextMove false  /cp /lgf endgame_suite.pgn /lgi %%P /fcp=polyglot.exe
>>/fd=d:\moveiengines\polyglot /scp=movei00_8_336.exe
>>/sd=d:\moveiengines\movei00_8_336 /sgf=d:\nunn\move336Rybka.pgn
>>FOR %%P IN (20) DO start /w winboard.exe /mg=2 /tc=1 /autoCallFlag true
>>/ponderNextMove false  /cp /lgf endgame_suite.pgn /lgi %%P /fcp=GERBIL.exe
>>/fd=d:\moveiengines\Gerbil /scp=movei00_8_336.exe
>>/sd=d:\moveiengines\movei00_8_336 /sgf=d:\nunn\move336Gerbil.pgn
>>
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>If polyglot is run from the command line with no arguments it uses polyglot.ini
>as the ini file.

is polyglot.ini file that I need to create?
I have no problem to change the name of the file that I have to polyglot.ini but
it does not prevent the error that I describe.


 Otherwise you can specify which ini file to use by adding it to
>the command line, as in:
>
>polyglot rybka.ini

I do not understand it.
I have no command line in the batch file.

>
>Instructions for what to put in an ini file are in the readme.

I read the readme but it does not help.
I also read another thread here with example file for rybka but it did not help.



>
>Under Windows, polyglot needs the cygwin1.dll file to run, which is downloadable
>from the same page at ridderkirk website as polyglot. Due to license
>restrictions I don't think it was allowed to be made available in the same
>package as polyglot, it has to be got seperately.

I have that file and put it in the same directory as polyglot.exe but it did not
help.

renaming that file to another file does not change the error that I get

Note that I have that file in many folders and putting it also in the rybka
folder did not help.

Uri



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