Beta Testers needed

[David Weller]

Thanks Josh,

I dont know that there would be much loss to using WINE, but you could compile X from the sources. It works under Linux.

Also, are you using the latest version. WBEC doesnt seem to know I have updated???

Next update [soon] I will need to add a MAKEFILE to the sources.

-David

[Volker Pittlik]

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Next update [soon] I will need to add a MAKEFILE to the sources.

-David

That's good. I was not successful to compile it. I admit I didn't try very hard.

Volker

[jshriver]

I put a patch up to make it compile under linux natively.

http://www.olympuschess.com/xpdnt_06051 ... .patch.bz2

Just put that in the directory with the 060515 source code and run
patch -p1 xpdnt_060515_linux.patch

gcc -O3 -lm *.c -o xpdnt

Voila
If offering this patch goes against any kind of licensing or rules you have I'll gladly remove it from my site, just seemed like a quick way to get it out to you and others who want it.

-Josh

P.S. There are very little changes needed really, think 3-4 lines changed or added total. The big thing was to add -lm to gcc so it includes the math library. One of the functions required pow().

P.P.S I also uploaded the crafty xpdnt 25 game test I did
http://www.olympuschess.com/xpdnt-crafty.pgn

[David Weller]

Hi Josh,

No problem with the patch.

But you ought to add -DNDEBUG to the compiler line.

You basically have a debug version otherwise [very slow].

-David

I am waiting for this match to finish, before I upload the newest version:

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   Engine            Score        Xp
1: Xpdnt             19.0/55 ????????
2: Ruffian 1.0.5     7.5/8   =1111111
3: Spike 1.0a        7.0/8   =1=11111
4: AnMon 5.50        5.5/8   01=11101
4: SOS 5.1 for Arena 5.5/8   1=001111
6: Dragon 4.6        4.0/8   01001110
7: Hermann 1.5       3.5/8   00===011
8: Nejmet 3.07       3.0/7   0101010 

55 of 70 games played
Name of the tournament: Freeforall
Site/ Country: AMDATHLON, United States
Level: Tournament 40/5
Hardware: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2500+ 1399 MHz with 510 MB

The last game was against Hermann. I think I lost a won game
Not doing well against Ruffian or Spike at all

[jshriver]

I just did a test with the -DNDEBUG option.

Using gcc -O3 I get around 54knps, with Intel CC I get around 67knps.

-Josh

[sje]

A compilation fault was detected when trying to build it under Mac OS/X 10.4.6 (OpenBSD/gcc):

helper.c: In function 'Bioskey':
helper.c:23: error: 'fd_set' undeclared (first use in this function)
helper.c:23: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
helper.c:23: error: for each function it appears in.)
helper.c:23: error: parse error before 'readfds'
helper.c:24: error: storage size of 'timeout' isn't known
helper.c:26: error: 'readfds' undeclared (first use in this function)

This was fixed by adding the line:

#include <sys/time.h>

after line 9 (#else") in helper.h.