🚀 go-pugleaf

Simon Waters <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Dann Corbit wrote:
> > 
> > "Simon Waters" <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Dann Corbit wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Here is my tweaked version (the stock version won't even build on my
> > PC):
> > > > ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/GnuChess-503.exe

Thanks for providing that Windows version. However, the corresponding
sources look _very_ Windows-specific, we should come up with something
portable.

> > > Did you try using gcc?
> > 
> > This is with the unmodified version (straight from the tar file):
> > 
> > $ gcc --version
> > 2.95.3-5
> > 
> > dcorbit@DANNFAST l:/gnuchess-5.03
> > $ ./configure
> ....
> > checking for inttypes.h... no
> > checking for stdint.h... no
> 
> The great thing about standards is they keep changing.

Well, C99 has been around for some time, unfortunately implementations
still are lacking behind.

> Probably the simplest workaround is just before....
> 
> typedef uint64_t BitBoard;
> typedef uint64_t HashType;
> typedef uint32_t
> KeyType;                                                       
> 
> to add;
> 
> typedef u_int16_t uint16_t;
> typedef u_int32_t uint32_t;
> typedef u_int64_t uint64_t;
> 
> I used "#define uint16_t u_int16_t" etc in testing under cygwin.

Well, we could try to solve this with autoconf magic. However, I do
not like a solution with special windows sources which use C++ and
some windows-specific headers. (This is fine to be distributed by Dan
but the mainstream gnuchess should remain portable C, I think.)
Unfortunately I am not able to test with Cygwin due to a local lack of
MS software, but someone should maybe test with Cygwin before
releases.

Lukas

P.S.: There was another report on problems with the Cygwin readline
DLL, can someone confirm that?