Compile WinBoard 4.9 on Linux

[Roland Chastain]

Hello everybody.

I tried to build WinBoard on Linux.

Here the command that I used:

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make -f makefile.gcc CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc

I had to remove this line from makefile.gcc,

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USE_MINGW=1

because the option -mno-cygwin was not recognized.

First I got the following errors:

wsettings.c:39:10: fatal error: Windowsx.h: No such file or directory
39 | #include <Windowsx.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~

wchat.c:36:10: fatal error: Windowsx.h: No such file or directory
36 | #include <Windowsx.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~

The solution was to replace W with w.

Then I got this error:

/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/10.2.1/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: help.o:help.c:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debugFP'; backend.o:backend.c:(.bss+0x1c53a8): first defined here

As I didn't really know how to fix it, I made the following quick and dirty modifications in help.c:

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//FILE *debugFP;
   siStartInfo.hStdError = NULL;//debugFP;

And after that I could compile WinBoard and run it with wine.

I could even build the help file like this:

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wine "hc/hcrtf.exe" -xn winboard.hpj

I had downloaded hcrtf.exe from this page.

This line cannot work on Linux I believe:

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@mv $(PROJ).hlp tmp.hlp && @mv tmp.hlp $(PROJ).hlp

I simply did this:

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mv WINBOARD.HLP winboard.hlp

P.-S. Here is the content of winboard.err:

Microsoft (R) Help Compiler
HCRTF 4.03.0002
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1990 - 1995. All rights reserved.
winboard.hpj
HC3096: Warning: topic #1 of H:\echecs\sources\xboard-v4.9.x-167d205\winboard\winboard.rtf :
The font name "Franklin Gothic Medium Cond Greek" is longer than 31 characters.
HC3096: Warning: topic #1 of H:\echecs\sources\xboard-v4.9.x-167d205\winboard\winboard.rtf :
The font name "Franklin Gothic Medium Cond Baltic" is longer than 31 characters.
HC3096: Warning: topic #1 of H:\echecs\sources\xboard-v4.9.x-167d205\winboard\winboard.rtf :
The font name "Franklin Gothic Demi Cond Baltic" is longer than 31 characters.
541 Topics
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Created H:\echecs\sources\xboard-v4.9.x-167d205\winboard\winboard.hlp, 244,553 bytes
Compile time: 0 minutes, 0 seconds
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