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
>
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