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Steven A Brown — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:03:31 -0000

The ChessX Wiki on SourceForge says "Compiling the source is simple. Just unpack the sources, go to source directory (chessx) and execute:
lupdate chessx.pro
qmake
make"

Is there a command-line compiler I can use to execute those commands? Instead of installing and learning how to use the Qt Creater IDE?

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Jens Nissen — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:41:33 -0000

I know that there is (was?) a Qt extension of Visual Studio, but I haven't used it for years now. At least this extension is required for handling the moc'ing and the language specific handling of the sources. As this extension was always kind of tricky, I would prefer the Qt Creator for compiling chessx.

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Steven A Brown — Sat, 10 May 2025 15:52:01 -0000

I am trying to compile ChessX in Visual Studio on Windows. I installed the Qt library package into Visual Studio. I cloned the ChessX source code repository from Github into Visual Studio. Visual Studio does not accept chessx.pro as a valid project file, even after I rename it to chessx.proj. I opened chessx.pro in an edit window and tried to compile, but I get multiple compiler errors related to CMake. I could not find a qmake file. I tried opening a command prompt window in the source directory and running "lupdate chessx.pro" but got the error message "'lupdate' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." I tried running "qmake" and "qmake chessx.pro" but got the error message "'qmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

Has anyone ever successfully compiled ChessX in Visual Studio? If yes, what is the procedure to follow?

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Jens Nissen — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:47:43 -0000

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 Find help directly in the program or in the [Manual](https://sourceforge.net/p/chessx/wiki/ChessX%20Manual/).
 Find hints on [customizing](Customize ChessX) ChessX to your needs.
 Details on the program's interna can be found in the [Reference](https://sourceforge.net/p/chessx/wiki/Reference/).
+And do not forget to [Browse thru the Wiki](https://sourceforge.net/p/chessx/wiki/browse_pages/) for specific topics.

 # Contributing
 **Code Contributor**s should read the HOWTOs:

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Opa — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:11:15 -0000

Hi there, in firstplace i like to thank everyone who is involved in making chessx

I would love to set stockfish to just show me only the evaluation of the position in centipawns and no concrete moves

The idea is that i can go trough my games and see when something gone wrong but not the exact way - so i need to find it on my own.

Is there a way to do this?

Many thanks
Patrick

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Jens Nissen — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 15:51:45 -0000

These things are better suited for the mailing list.
You need to compile stockfish youryelf as the distributed sf is a Gui application which does not work as expected.

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Tomasz Kedra — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:44:59 -0000

Hello, I started using chessx and have question about linking stockfish. In preferences i've installed stockfish, and than when i'm trying to run analisys, stocfish starts, but nothing happens (in stockfisk window where i see chessboard, and also in analisys window). I'm running chessx and stockfish on Mac M1

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Jeremy Irons — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:55:23 -0000

Thx a lot!

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Stanislaus John Wojnowski — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:08:19 -0000

Dear Sirs and Madams:
I am unable to download the large database "bundesliga2000.pgn.zip" and web favorite, for example: "twic1300g.zip". I am told "database" can not be accessed at the moment. Why? How do I resolve or work around this issue?
Thank you.
Stan W

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IAHM-COL — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:04:44 -0000

Hi @danilo-josue ,

1 Which language specifically?
Spanish? (or other?)

I just sent a pull request with Spanish Translation but it will take a few days before the maintainer gets to look at it,

If you want to look at the Spanish file specifically, here is the source code, with my current version:
https://github.com/IAHM-COL/chessx/blob/spanish-i18n/i18n/chessx_es.ts

Translation source code is better edited with QtLinguist, which comes with the QtCreator. The TS file can be open with the Linguist, and the gui is self-explanatory, however;
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtlinguist-index.html

If you want a binary translated to be able to try it out, I am adding one here as attachment

You can implement binaries by putting them in data/lang directory, (I believe)
https://github.com/Isarhamster/chessx/tree/master/data/lang

If you want to translate other language, there are incomplete sources for some here:
https://github.com/IAHM-COL/chessx/tree/spanish-i18n/i18n
(these are ready up to last code)

5 If you want a TS file for other language, one empty TS file ready to begin translated can be created. If you want help, let me know which language specifically, and I make the TS source if you need me to.

Regards,