[Bigforth-devel] Turnkey application problems

[David K. <dvd...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm just trying to turn the brainless chess playing game [1] into a
windows turnkey application using bigforth-2.4.0.  Stumbled into two
problems so far:

 - Default search path searches bigforth's library directories before
   '.', so it does not load 'environ.fs' which is part of my project but
   is shadowed by a file of the same name in the bigforth library
   directory.

   I cannot override the search-path using 'setpath', since it is not
   part of the default search-order, and i didn't find out where it
   hides :/ Had to hand-fix bigforth.ini for now, but this is somewhat
   an ugly solution.

 - The bigger problem is, that '(SAVE' doesn't seem to exist nowadays,
   and I don't know how to replace it.  How do I specify the word to
   execute at startup?  The cleanest solution would be something like
   'bootmessage' in Gforth, for initializating Brainless, since
   afterwards Brainless uses the Forth terminal anyways.

Here is the non-working code I'm using:

  bigforth=c:/Program\ Files/bigforth/bigforth.exe

  wine "$bigforth" -e 'path' ./brainless.fs \
      -e ': GO  tui-startup QUIT ; ' \
      -e ': (SAVE r> GO (SAVE >r ; ' \
      -e 'SAVESYSTEM brainless CR BYE'

BTW on Linux, bigforth is still about 30% faster than Gforth-64bit for
the Brainless benchmark.  Probably Gforth bloats code too much and
relies too much on the (too small) BTB.

cheers,

David
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[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/forth-brainless/