WinBoard ran fine under wine the last time I tried it, though that was a long time ago.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 08:09:57PM +0100, H.G. Muller wrote: > > > > > > Thomas Adam schreef op 3/21/2015 om 2:06 PM: > > >The winboard/makefile.gcc file suggests that it can be cross-compiled, > yet > > >it's clearly not received any love for sometime, since there's calls to > > >-mno-cygwin which have been deprecated options to GCC---and in more > recent > > >versions have been completely removed (hence 'make -f makefile.gcc' now > > >errors out). > > > > The WinBoard binary that I distribute is compiled by gcc 3.4.4 for that > > reason. > > Newer versions indeed did not seem to work, and I never could figure out > how > > to > > produce a native Windows binary with those. So I stuck to 3.4.4, which > does > > the job fine. > > Ick, this is indeed a problem then. I appreciate that's not your fault, > but I would urge you to perhaps revisit getting that to work under a > newer GCC version. I could do this when I'm done with other things. > > > I think that as long as you don't alter the prototypes (other than in > > style), and don't shuttle > > functional code between files shared with WinBoard to files only used in > > XBoard, > > you should be OK. When in doubt, it is easy enough for me to try if it > still > > compiles under Cygwin and let you know if there are problems. > > Okey-dokey, that sounds OK. Thanks! Did you say you were going to push > to Savannah at some point> > > -- Thomas Adam > > -- > "Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am > not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.) > >
