Makefile

[Paul Georgiou]

Hello,

I wrote a Makefile based on the installation instructions on the website. This should help with compilation on systems with make installed.

[tylov]

I have created a public github repository with the full history from v0.80 to pre0.95, https://github.com/tylov-fork/PractRand

I added a branch "fixwindows", which can be merged with master.
That includes a fixed up Makefile (it had some flaws with dependencies etc).
I use windows friendly tdm-gcc v9.2.0: I got the "error reading from stdin".
The fix is to use _setmode() to set stdin to binary mode - freopen(0, "rb", stdin) doesn't work.

[Cerian Knight]

Tylov,

There is a portion of pre-0.95 tests.cpp that did not get reverted to its proper 0.94 state (which Orz and I discussed here: https://sourceforge.net/p/pracrand/discussion/366935/thread/35c96c218d/

Here the correct code (taken from 0.94), starting at line 7628 (in pre-0.95):

        if (predicted_samples < 200) return;
        //if (predicted_samples < 20) return;//remove me

        int effective_EXP = int(std::floor(std::log(predicted_samples) / std::log(4.0) - 2.9));
        if (effective_EXP < 3) effective_EXP = 3;
        if (effective_EXP > EXP) effective_EXP = EXP;
        //effective_EXP = 3;////remove me

With that change, I see no signifant issues with 0.95 (so did not attempt to review the rest of the file). Hopefully Orz is doing well, and will release a non-pre version of 0.95 soon.