Scorpio bitbases with linux. Any success?

[zamar]

Anyone successfully used scorpio bitbases with linux? I've already spent many, many hours trying to make them work and starting to feel quite frustrated.

What I've already tried:

For my 32-bit debian Lenny system:

* I installed packages released here:
http://oko00.hostsharing.net/debian/unofficial/

* Toga loads bitbases at startup correctly, but when it starts probing them, it segfaults.

For my 64-bit debian Lenny system:

* I compiled (after disabling SPINLOCK as instructed) egbbdll and downloaded bitbases by hand. Again toga correctly loads bitbases at startup, but probe causes segfault.

* I wrote my own small probe testing code based on Scorpio sources. Again bitbases are easily loaded, but when I probe them I either get score zero for every possible position or segfault (backtrace shows crash happens in decode).


Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

[BBauer]

Looks like not so many use linux.

Here is what I got:

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./scorpio
ht 4194304 X 32
pht 2097152 X 16
eht 2097152 X 16
processors [2]
unknown command: exchange_bonus
unknown command: 75
unknown command: exchange_bonus
unknown command: 75
unknown command: exchange_bonus
unknown command: 50
EgbbProbe 3.3 by Daniel Shawul
Egbbs loaded !      

So what?
kind regards
Bernhard

[royb]

I run Linux on every system I own (32-bit and 64-bit) and I've never been able to get the .dll file (that apparently bitbases need) in source form so it could be compiled into a .so file for Linux. I just use EGTBs and burn the 7.2 GB of disk space for 5-man TBs.

I've not tried to run bitbases under wine (where a .dll file has a chance of working) though.

Roy

[bnemias]

See here: http://dshawul.googlepages.com/home for bitbases source.

This thread may help if the above isn't enough: http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... 09&start=0

[pedrox]

You've tried bitbases with other programs as sloppy or bbchess?

I have a linux version of danasah (I've tried with ubuntu 32 and 64), which I found that to load bitbases properly and work well.

http://danasah.googlepages.com

For a long time I had no success running bitbases in linux with my engine, until I discovered that I had to add when linking the engine the flags
-ldl, you can see it in the file makefile.

The Windows version works with wine and can also to use bitbases with help the dll file.

Pedro

[zamar]

Could it be that just the latest version of egbdll is incompatible with Linux.

Has anyone been able run the latest version (version 3.3) on Linux?

[zamar]

Just compiled version 3.1 of egbdll and it worked OK.