🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm happy to report that I have installed Cygwin and it seems to work as
advertised.  I have built GNU Chess 5.04 with Cygwin and only encountered
one small problem.  When I ran make it said rank6 and rank7 were undefined
in search.c.  That was easily fixed and I enjoyed my first game today.

"Simon Waters" <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3CBFF34C.7FC7C5A1@wretched.demon.co.uk...
> Michael Arber wrote:
> >
> > It sounds like you are recommending Cygwin, yes?
>
> No I recommend Free operating systems, ala the GNU project.
>
> We currently only test GNU Chess on GNU/Linux (Intel), GNU/Linux
> (PowerPC), Solaris (Sparc - if we can find one) and Windows 98
> under Cygwin.
>
> Various people have submitted builds of 5.02/5.03 ported to
> compile under various different compilers for Windows (Dann and
> the Intel compiler, a couple of MSVC ports), but I'm loathed to
> adopt these changes into the code if;
>
> 1) The contributor doesn't commit to maintaining them, at least
> for a build or two.
> 2) It complicates support on platforms that use the GNU build
> procedures.
>
> The changes for any specific Windows compiler have been small,
> and most relate to declaring Integer types correctly, the kind
> of changes it should be easy to make with "search and replace"
> in whatever editor you use.