compiling for pocketGM

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Jorge Garcia
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compiling for pocketGM

Post by Jorge Garcia »

Hi all,

I like to analyze chess positions with PGM, but i would like to compile some open source engines to use with it. For instance i miss stockfish por pgm.
Does anybody know how, i tried google but I could not see any related information

Thanks in advanced
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pedrox
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Re: compiling for pocketGM

Post by pedrox »

With the program you can find Fruit and others with its source code, with WinMerge you can compare the code of PC and the code for the PPC.

If you write PGM programmers, they send some information to make the port.

PGM has a protocol similar to UCI but not exactly equal. Instead of creating an executable file, you must create a dll file. You could use vc ++ 2008.

A simple compilation of the program is not enough. It could take several hours to do the port. You need programming knowledge and better if you know the source code of the program.
Jorge Garcia
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Re: compiling for pocketGM

Post by Jorge Garcia »

Thank you Pedro