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Originally Posted by Iņigo
I tried to port a chess program to DR800 some months ago, but with no luck.
Linux chess programs usually consist in 2 parts, the backend (engine) and the frontend (user interface).
- backend:
gnuchess v5.07: successfully compiled, not so difficult
crafty v23.2: crafty is a popular and powerful engine, but it needs some advanced CPU's registers and instructions not available in ARM CPUs.
- frontend:
Some alternatives here:
xboard: the canonical gnuchess frontend, it uses old Xaw/Xmu/Xat widgets, which I was able to compile, but they are too old to make screen refreshes easy to add
eboard: powerful, but uses gnomecanvas (already ported to DR) but screen refreshes are hard
gnome-chess: interesting option but uses some gnome libraries (libgnome[ui], libbonobo[ui]...) so porting would be not easy
And then I stopped...
IMO the way would be to work on eboard and port all that gnomecanvas stuff to support refreshes. Btw, we/you could use gnomecanvas or goocanvas (more modern), as I successfully compiled both for DR devices. Tell me if you want them.
Iņigo
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so the problem is not the engine. even if we want to use crafty, I think there would be a translator for converting some not supported instructions to ARM instructions (although it's a guess)
Iņigo, I think you are far far a head of me
. Instead of using DR1000 virtual machine for DR800, I wanted to install the whole SDK and simulator on UBUNTU 10.4 myself !!!
and guess what => I stopped there
although I am looking for a new free time to start over
anyway, nice work Iņigo