From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: windows version of Crafty
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Date:	Tue, 23 May 2000 03:18:58 GMT
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On 22 May 2000 11:08:10 GMT, buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner) wrote:

>Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>>On 21 May 2000 20:13:28 GMT, buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner) wrote:
>>>The easiest option you have, is to download wcrafty.x.y.exe or compile
>>>it with MSVC (which also will give a faster executable).
>>
>>What about mingw32?
>
>I don't know, what you are refering this to.

It's my standard response to the "can't open a pipe between DOS and
Win32 apps" FAQ.  It's still a GNU environment.

>It should be possible
>to compile crafty with mingw32. It would need some Makefile hacking.

But not very much if you already have a working DJGPP makefile;
DJGPP and mingw32 are both GNU make + GCC + GNU binutils.

>When you are refering to the speed. Due to the author of crafty,
>MSVC will compile the fastest crafty executable, almost 30% faster
>than gcc compiled.

MSVC costs USD 200; the optimizer costs USD 300 extra.
Not very cheap for amateur hackers.

>I can confirm this (and I tried many Compiler switches).

What about these?
  -O3 -mpentium -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer

>One can also see it at the assembler level.

From what I've read, unoptimized GCC output is total cr4p.

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