Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compile latest version under Windows

[Holger]

At 16:59 27.11.2002 +0000, Joern Thyssen wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:29:02PM +0100, Holger wrote
>> 
>> During the last try br1.c had about the size like Jim mentioned:
>> -rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Kein      9630656 Nov 27 16:51 br1.c
>> Before, when there were some files missing in SOURCE and OBJS it was only
>> about 16k small. I hope to have it right now.
>
>Looks fine. I've:
>
>-rw-r--r--    1 jth      jth       9529134 Nov 27 17:40 br1.c
>
>The difference is 101522 bytes. I would expect a difference equal to the
>number of lines (which is 183288 on my box).

Hmm, with line endings converted it's:
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Kein      9630656 Nov 27 18:13 br1.c
It's not exactly the same.
The definition of the array starts in line 31, the closing brace is in line
185208.
Total number of lines here: 185241. This shouldn't change from system to
system, should it?

>I'll add some checks to br1.c to ensure that the database is correct.
>
>> Speaking of br1.c, why does it have to be compiled into the executable?
>> GNUbg.exe is now 2.489.383 bytes big (on my system), so more than double
>> than before.
>
>To ensure that it's present: the one-sided database *must* be present
>(it's used for other stuff than bearoff probs). So it's purely

It should just be a quick file check, or more?

>convinience: I don't have to cope with the database not being present.
>
>Actually I didn't think about people having to download it several
>times.
>
>> I suppose the database doesn't change? As a user I don't want to download
>> this again and again when I get a new version. At least not if the most
>> part doesn't change.
>
>Point taken. But it's very convinient to have it built-in :-)

And more user friendly if you take it out. Could you do so? I think the
routines for loading exist already?
Until now I regularly fetched Oystein's binaries. But at home I only have a
slow modem connection. It _does_ make a difference if I have to get 1MB or
2.5 MB.
For me I could switch to CVS and build it myself, now that I know how to do
it. But there are certainly others who don't want to or don't know.

Regards,

        Holger