All, Another option is to use a VM, MS's Virtual PC (free), VMWare's offering (free for non-commercial use) or any of the flavors of the open source Xen. Basically, you can set up an install of whatever target environment you use as a client OS. And then install and configure all you need and want natively within the Client OS without having to worry that the host OS is Windows.
And for those of you who will say this is inefficient - I would just reply with, not participating at all is less efficient than at least participating with something inside a VM. There is no need for perfection, as in having every little tiny bit of performance eeked out of a box/processor/memory. If you can get +90% (which is what all the above VM creators claim for each of theirs), then you can participate and gain more experience for your particular computer_go player. Jim ----- Original Message ---- From: Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:31:21 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: linux and windows terry mcintyre wrote: > A cygwin port can't really be considered a "windows application" since it > requires that the windows user install cygwin. This is not for the faint of > heart. > > There are many good reasons why some people develop on Linux. Porting between > Linux and Windows is not trivial. > > A better way to run linux programs on borrowed Windows machines might be to > burn a LiveCD with one's program -- something akin to the Hikarunix CD, which > tournament organizers could then pop into a computer, boot, and start the > program. > But you can compile using mingw32 to build native applications. I recently compiled my chess program and it runs fine, at least on recent windows OS versions - of course it is a UCI program which means the GUI is a separate windows program. - Don > > > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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