Re: GNU Chess

[Simon Waters]

Erin Warfield wrote:
> Hello, I am writing in hopes that someone can help me
> out with the compilation of gnuchess-5.06  I have read
> the readme file as well as the install file, but I am
> still having no luck configuring the source code.  I
> have use the ./configure command in the command prompt
> but continually receive an error...
> 
> C:\Downloads\chess\gnuchess-5.06\src>./configure
> Bad command or file name
> 
> Is there something that I am doing wrong?  Could you
> tell me any steps I need to do, or any other reference
> documents to look under?  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  Thank you.

Hi Erin,

the command "./configure" will work on GNU/Linux and other *nix like
operating systems, I've no idea what it will do under Microsoft Windows
if you don't have Cygwin installed.

You can get a prebuilt version of GNU Chess 5.07 for Microsoft Windows
at www.tim-mann.org, if you download the latest version of "winboard".

There is no "official" GNU project binary. Tim has a long history of
developing free chess software, and I personally regard him as a great
asset to free software, as well as trustworthy.

If you want to try your own code modifications I suggest you install
"cygwin" first, and try "./configure" from a Cygwin window (or install a
GNU based operating system).

 HTH

 Simon

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