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Startup failure when selecting Mode->Two machines
Posted:
07 Aug 2011, 08:11by pstein
I wanted to let Winboard play two machine against each other: Fairy-Max and Fruit.
So the first operation after start of Winboard v4.5.2 (under 64bit Win7) is to click menu
Mode->Two machines
But then suddenly an error popup appears telling me:
Startup failure on 'polyglot -noini -ec "fruit_21" -de "./Fruit" -uci NalimovCache=2':
The system cannot find the file specified
Hmm, whats wrong?
Both engines exist in a brother folder of Winboard
I didn't change anything in the (intial) setup
Peter
Re: Startup failure when selecting Mode->Two machines
Posted:
07 Aug 2011, 08:42by H.G.Muller
I think I made a typo in the winboard.ini file packed with the distribution.
In the install Fruit is not in .\Fruit but in ..\Fruit. So there must be specified a wrong /fd or /sd on the Fruit engine line.
Re: Startup failure when selecting Mode->Two machines
Posted:
07 Aug 2011, 10:06by pstein
Sorry, this was a typo from me. The correct error popup was:
Startup failure on 'polyglot -noini -ec "fruit_21" -de "../Fruit" -uci NalimovCache=2':
The system cannot find the file specified
So again: Whats wrong?
Re: Startup failure when selecting Mode->Two machines
Posted:
08 Aug 2011, 16:51by H.G.Muller
Well, the error message says Polyglot itself (i.e. polyglot.exe) could not be found. Are you sure there is a polyglot.exe in the same folder as winboard.exe?
Re: Startup failure when selecting Mode->Two machines
Posted:
08 Aug 2011, 17:45by pstein
H.G.Muller wrote:Well, the error message says Polyglot itself (i.e. polyglot.exe) could not be found. Are you sure there is a polyglot.exe in the same folder as winboard.exe?
Hmm, I downloaded the portable version "Download WinBoard 4.4 bare executable (477 kB)"
from this web page:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=50387and expected that everything to run is inside.
This seems to be not the case.
So is there really no portable version which includes everything necessary to run?
Peter
Re: Startup failure when selecting Mode->Two machines
Posted:
08 Aug 2011, 17:54by H.G.Muller
'Bare' actually means really 'bare', i.e. absolutely NOTHING what you need to run it, apart from the executable itself. It is intended for people that already have WinBoard installed, and just want to upgrade to a newer version.
There is no separate portable version of WinBoard. I guess WinBoard is intrinsically portable, if you are prepared to abandon the start-menu items, and the fonts. Perhaps I should put those in a separate, optional section of the installer, so that people can deselect it when they want a pure portable install.
I am also not sure why you would want such an obsolete version.