Where is the source for the Windows version of Xboard?

[Dann Corbit]

It certainly is not the stuff at the Gnu site, which is no where remotely close to compile on Winblows without Cygwin.

[H.G.Muller]

It is the source I use to compile WinBoard. I do use gcc + Cygwin. But there is a makefile.ms included as well, and people that have MSVC tell me that works too.

Make sure the compile is 32-bit, though.

[Eric Mullins]

"no where remotely close" doesn't help me help you, I need more than that.

It compiles for me various ways with lots of compilers. I generally use MSVC 6.0 to produce my builds, and included with the packages are project files for MSVC 6.0 which should convert properly no matter what [later than 6.0] VC version you are using.

I generally compile from the command line, though. But still, it works for me with 4, 5, 6, 7.0, 7.1, 8, and 9. I don't have 10 to test with.

It also compiles with intel, MinGW, DevCpp (that's mingw, though).

I'm happy to help, but I don't have the information to do so.

[vergie]

Hello,

I am also looking for the winboard soruce.
In xboard-4.4.1.tar.gz at
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

I can not find a winborad folder (and files like winboard.c ,....)

[Giorgio Medeot]

Hello,

I am also looking for the winboard soruce.
In xboard-4.4.1.tar.gz at
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/

I can not find a winborad folder (and files like winboard.c ,....)

You may try the GIT repository:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/xboard.git

Giorgio

[H.G.Muller]

I guess that indeed something has gone wrong here. I always use the tarballs from the git repository, so I had not looked in the GNU download section. But it seems that WinBoard has been removed altogether from the tarball. (Except for the Shogi bitmaps in Windows format...)

As GNU des not allow us to distribute the WinBoard installer because it contains non-free software (e.g. timeseal and timestamp), we decided that the WinBoard binaries would be distributed from WinBoard forum. Apparently Arun must have thought this would also apply to the sources, but this was never my intension, and does not make much sense. (They are generated largely from the same sources, and GNU does not object to us posting WB sources.) The GNU home page now refers to WB forum for everything having to do with WinBoard, though.

I will take up the matter with Arun, and in the mean time I guess I should link to the git repository from the download thread here for sources.

[vergie]

Compiling the source with MS Visual C++ 2008 using the makefile.ms was no problem .

I also created a new win32 project added the source and compiled it . This also works but was a little bit harder.

[Dann Corbit]

I guess that indeed something has gone wrong here. I always use the tarballs from the git repository, so I had not looked in the GNU download section. But it seems that WinBoard has been removed altogether from the tarball. (Except for the Shogi bitmaps in Windows format...)

As GNU des not allow us to distribute the WinBoard installer because it contains non-free software (e.g. timeseal and timestamp), we decided that the WinBoard binaries would be distributed from WinBoard forum. Apparently Arun must have thought this would also apply to the sources, but this was never my intension, and does not make much sense. (They are generated largely from the same sources, and GNU does not object to us posting WB sources.) The GNU home page now refers to WB forum for everything having to do with WinBoard, though.

I will take up the matter with Arun, and in the mean time I guess I should link to the git repository from the download thread here for sources.

The hurd fears Windows for some irrational reason.
The Gnu attitude is truly paranoid.

[Dann Corbit]

Here is a stab at a 64 bit Windows version of Winboard:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... d-4.4.1.7z

[Denis P. Mendoza]

Here is a stab at a 64 bit Windows version of Winboard:
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... d-4.4.1.7z

I did the same thing you did to build 64-bit even with the last 4.4.0 before. It compiled 64-bit binary using MSVC or ICC, but the odd thing was, it hangs or takes a very long time to finish a command. At least it avoided the ??? error:

..\common.h(85) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'X11/Intrinsic.h': No such file or directory

Putting a -DWIN32 option as HG mentioned before, eluded the error!

The 64-bit binary you had had the same case of crashing. Try this: Execute the binary, press "Help", then "About"!

It's just in my case. I also inserted it in my working Winboard folder and had some crashes as well.

Denis