From:	buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: windows version of Crafty
Date:	21 May 2000 20:13:28 GMT
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Josh Haglund wrote:

>I can compile crafty.exe in DOS, but how do I do compile it so it will
>work with winboard (NOT DOS) ? I use to be able to compile one with
>cgywin .... but I don't have that anymore, so could some help me a bit. 

Sorry, you can't with plain DJGPP. You may be able to create an
executable, that works with winboard, after installing RSXNT.

The easiest option you have, is to download wcrafty.x.y.exe or compile
it with MSVC (which also will give a faster executable).

The problem is the (unnamed?) pipe, winboard tries to open. Due to 
Tim Mann (the author of winboard), this will not work with DOS 
applications, only with Win32 console applications.

(To anybody interested. A nongraphical chess program can be
"remote controlled" by winboard, a graphical interface. The chess
program only needs to read stdin and write to stdout with Standard
C functions. Recompiling my program to an Win32 console application
works without any source modification. The DJGPP executable just
won't work together with winboard.)

The author of crafty, Robert Hyatt, as well as Tim Mann read
rec.games.chess.computer. Perhaps you want to ask your question
there as well.

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