AMY for Win32: The missing DLL...

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Dann Corbit at 07 February 2000 21:20:16:
I don't know why the DLL should prove missing.
I added the one from my system. The MS VC++ compiler is not supposed to generate code that requires special DLL files not found on Win32 systems, so this is possibly some kind of compiler bug.
I will look in the knowledge base later to see if it is logged as a bug.
Try with the DLL I added to the zip file.


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[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 08 February 2000 10:00:01:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: AMY for Win32: The missing DLL... geschrieben von:/posted by: Dann Corbit at 07 February 2000 21:20:16:

I don't know why the DLL should prove missing.
I added the one from my system. The MS VC++ compiler is not supposed to generate code that requires special DLL files not found on Win32 systems, so this is possibly some kind of compiler bug.
I will look in the knowledge base later to see if it is logged as a bug.
Try with the DLL I added to the zip file.

Hi Winboarders,
Amy will not play on my PC !
I can put the TTCore.dll in my c:\Windows\System directory or in my Amy directory but Amy will not work.
The debug version (over 2 MB) work fine but here I can not created an opening book !
Hashtables work fine:
-hc 32m (parameter)
Tablebases work fine:
c:\programme\winboard\amy
c:\programme\winboard\amy\tb
(Nalimov)
See the readme from the programmer Thorsten Greiner !
Have other person problems with created a book ?
I will wait with the detail Amy page for my webpage !
I play blitz games with the debug version without the opening book and see that Amy play very strong. I hope we can the problems solve !
Regards
Frank

[Thomas Mayer]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Thomas Mayer at 08 February 2000 12:01:44:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Little problems with Amy (opening book and exe file) ! geschrieben von:/posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 08 February 2000 10:00:01:
Hi Frank,

Hi Winboarders,
Amy will not play on my PC !
Have other person problems with created a book ?

Dann said that someone should try to compile Amy with his own VC++ compiler...
Well I've done so and everything works fine (seem to be) so I don't need a ttcore.dll or stuff like this... Problem is: My amy.exe is more than 100k longer than Dann's, so I don't know if it is much slower than Dann's... Perhaps the reason is that I don't have all the Service-Packs for VC++...
While Compiling I get 6 Attentions (Warnungen... don't know the right english word for it... Dann ? Is this normal ?
So far, I haven't tried it... but I'll do it, perhaps the programmer can help us here with his own special book...
Greets, Thomas

[Thorsten Greiner]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Thorsten Greiner at 08 February 2000 15:52:06:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Little problems with Amy (opening book and exe file) ! geschrieben von:/posted by: Thomas Mayer at 08 February 2000 12:01:44:

Hi Frank,

Hi Winboarders,
Amy will not play on my PC !
Have other person problems with created a book ?

Dann said that someone should try to compile Amy with his own VC++ compiler...
Well I've done so and everything works fine (seem to be) so I don't need a ttcore.dll or stuff like this... Problem is: My amy.exe is more than 100k longer than Dann's, so I don't know if it is much slower than Dann's... Perhaps the reason is that I don't have all the Service-Packs for VC++...
While Compiling I get 6 Attentions (Warnungen... don't know the right english word for it... Dann ? Is this normal ?
So far, I haven't tried it... but I'll do it, perhaps the programmer can help us here with his own special book...
Greets, Thomas

Please note that the windows of Amy port was done by Dann Corbit, as I do not have access to a machine with a windows compiler. Since Amy was written in a Unix/Linux environment, there are a few changes necessary for it to compile under windows. I think Dann did an excellent job on this, but it was my part to make this a tough one. Let me explain why some things do not work yet:
As several people noted, permanent brain or thinking on opponents time does not work with Dann's winboard version. This is because a special routine - which checks for input from winboard - does not work under windows. This should be easy to fix since crafty uses a similar routine and has a winboard version of this.
Regarding the opening book: as I am a lazy guy, I did not write my own database routines to handle the opening book. I am using a freely available library called 'Berkeley DB', which does a brilliant job for this. Unfortunately, this is not a standard library on a windows system, though it should be portable to windows. But I dare not ask Dann - do you?
As I am starting to Paderborn tomorrow, I just hope all you guys keep your thumbs pressed for Amy. This will be a first true test for the parallel search! I promise to have a new version ready next week, incorporating Dann's changes and (maybe?) improvements...
Rgds
-Thorsten

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Dann Corbit at 08 February 2000 17:33:07:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Little problems with Amy (opening book and exe file) ! geschrieben von:/posted by: Thorsten Greiner at 08 February 2000 15:52:06:
I think I have everything fixed now.
The dll problem was due to my having run a profile session on the program. I used something called TrueTime, which was demanding TTCORE.DLL.
The database thing was easy. The new one is tested and ready to go.
If there are any more issues, I suspect they won't be too hard.
I did a multiple CPU version, since someone asked for one.
Sorry for all the confusion!


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