Re: [Scid-users] DGT board question

[Alexander W. <a.w...@ph...>]

David Chiang wrote:

Hi!

> I am trying to get scid to work with my DGT board.  I have downloaded 
> the driver installation files "dgtnix-1.9.1.tar" but have no idea how to 
> compile the files to work within the Windows XP environment.  Can anyone 
> help?  Thank you!

You need two parts. dgtnix is just one library, on windows resulting in 
some DLL file. Additionally, you need dgtdrv from dgtdrv.sf.net which is 
then compiled using dgtnix. Of course you need a development system on 
Windows (gcc, autoconf and stuff).

The general procedure

- Given C:\somewhere\dgtnix-1.9.1\ with subdirs and C:\dgtdrv\ with subdirs

- Build dgtnix:
	cd dgtnix-1.9.1
	./configure
	make

this should result in a dgtnix.dll

- Build dgtdrv:
	cd ../dgtdrv


   You'll have to edit the Makefile for dgtdrv to point to your build of 
dgtnix. Just set the two variables

	INCLUDES = /opt/chess/include
	LIBS     = /opt/chess/lib

accordingly.

	make

This should result in dgtdrv2.exe.

If all went well you should be able to call up "dgtdrv2.exe COM1: la" or 
something the like and it should read in your DGT board.


However, having no windows myself I never compiled all this on that 
platform. I know that dgtnix compiles on Windows as Pierre told me it 
does. And I know that dgtdrv is pure ANSI C++ doing nothing strange at 
all. The most tricky part therefore might be to compile dgtnix.

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