probably this isn’t the first question in that respect,
but I would at least be glad about a link explaining on how to compile and run software,
available only by means of source.
I am a quite experienced C programmer, but I never compiled a C program under Linux.
GNU xboard is a graphical interface for playing chess, that can be used either to access
the Free Internet Chess Server, Free Internet Chess Server (FICS),
or to communicate with Crafty, a chess engine running on the (or my) PC itself,
i.e. not in the ‘cloud’.
xboard had been included in openSUSE 10.2. But that’s some time ago…
Seems that I need to compile GNU xboard from source.
2nd question: If I should succeed in compiling and running xboard,
is there a place where I could contribute the resulting files, so that others
don’t have to do the same job again ?
If you click on the actual repository name, games, it will take you to
the Open Build Service, look under sources and click on the xboard.spec
file, you can see how it’s compiled.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:30:04 GMT, malcolmlewis
<malcolmlewis@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>Hi
>Your not looking in the right place
>openSUSE Software
>In the games repository… just a click away
>
>If you click on the actual repository name, games, it will take you to
>the Open Build Service, look under sources and click on the xboard.spec
>file, you can see how it’s compiled.
Not only that there are other choices for graphical boards for various
chess play engines, all in the repositories. Search on chess in yast.
