Recent changes to CompileScid

CompileScid modified by bstp

bstp — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:08:27 -0000

--- v53
+++ v54
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@

 The application **Scid.app can be found inside the "dist" directory**.

+##### MacOS Catalina 
+
+Alan Bennet kindly provided a tutorial on How to Install SCID from Source on [MacOSCatalina].

 ##### Advanced: CMake
 CMake is a flexible tool that generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice.

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Fulvio — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:47:25 -0000

To install only SCID without the engines use:
make install_scid

I don't know MSYS2 so I can give only some general advice:
- The Visual Studio terminal have a command to list the depencies of an executable:
dumpbin /IMPORTS scid.exe
You can use it to see which dlls are necessary for the executable compiled with MSYS2

SCID can also be compiled using cmake, which at the moment is the most portable thing for c++

Also, I moved the other comment to the bug tracker.

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yorkman — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:27:29 -0000

Also, the scid.exe I compiled with Visual Studio, the Correspondence function pops up these errors:

oops, 300+ lines functions are not maintainable

After I click OK I then get:

while executing
"sc_move addSan $move"
(procedure "SearchGame" line 97)
invoked from within
"SearchGame $Event $Site $White $Black $CmailGameName $result 0"
(procedure "::CorrespondenceChess::ReadInbox" line 205)
invoked from within
"::CorrespondenceChess::ReadInbox"
(procedure "::CorrespondenceChess::FetchGames" line 26)
invoked from within
"::CorrespondenceChess::FetchGames"
invoked from within
".ccWindow.top.retrieveCC invoke "
invoked from within
".ccWindow.top.retrieveCC instate !disabled { .ccWindow.top.retrieveCC invoke } "
invoked from within
".ccWindow.top.retrieveCC instate pressed { .ccWindow.top.retrieveCC state !pressed; .ccWindow.top.retrieveCC instate !disabled { .ccWindow.top.retriev..."
(command bound to event)

Once I click OK on this message my iccf games are downloaded but after I close Scid and reopen it they're lost and if I click on Database again to redownload them it may get one game but then it hangs with the hour-glass.

I tested this is Scid vs PC and it works perfectly there.

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yorkman — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:02:23 -0000

It'd be nice if I could compile this in MSYS2 though where I always compile my chess engines on windows. This way I wouldn't have to bother with Visual Studio and could just uninstall it.

Running the 'make' command compiles everything without errors, when I run 'make install' I always get these errors:

engines/scidlet/scidlet.cpp: In function 'bool inputReady()':
engines/scidlet/scidlet.cpp:78:5: error: 'fd_set' was not declared in this scope
78 | fd_set fd;
| ^~~~~~
engines/scidlet/scidlet.cpp:82:14: error: 'fd' was not declared in this scope
82 | FD_ZERO(&fd);
| ^~
engines/scidlet/scidlet.cpp:82:5: error: 'FD_ZERO' was not declared in this scope
82 | FD_ZERO(&fd);
| ^~~~~~~
engines/scidlet/scidlet.cpp:83:5: error: 'FD_SET' was not declared in this scope
83 | FD_SET(0, &fd);
| ^~~~~~
engines/scidlet/scidlet.cpp:84:13: error: 'select' was not declared in this scope
84 | return (select(1, &fd, NULL, NULL, &tv) > 0);
| ^~~~~~
make: *** [Makefile:126: scidlet] Error 1

While these errors may be valid if I wanted the engines compiled too, I don't think I should be getting these errors since I ran 'make all_scid' as engines shouldn't be compiled with this command.

Doing it this way, will it compile Scid.exe for me or just the linux version of scid?

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yorkman — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:49:55 -0000

Works great now! Thanks.
All this time I thought I was doing something wrong.

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Fulvio — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:45:04 -0000

Ops, my bad!
I removed bytebuf.cpp and forgot to update the Makefile.vc.
I have pushed a patch, please try it now.

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yorkman — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:06:15 -0000

Thanks for the reply Fulvio. Unfortunately I still can't get it to compile. I uninstall tcl 8.7 and tried tcl 8.6.9 and 8.6.10 but I always get this error:

N:\scid>nmake -f Makefile.vc all && Release\scid.exe

===============================================================================
Output directory = '.\Release'
Intermediate directory = '.\Release\Temp'
Tcl directory = 'C:\Tcl'
Build 'Release' Version = yes
CFLAGS: -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -O2 /EHsc -W2 -I"C:\Tcl\incl
ude" -c -nologo -std:c++17
LDFLAGS: -opt:icf,3 -nologo
===============================================================================

Creating directory '.\Release\Temp'...
Creating directory '.\Release\Temp\polyglot'...
tkscid.cpp
NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make '.\Release\Temp\bytebuf.obj'
Stop.

I also tried TCL 32bit and 64bit and using Visual Studio 2019 on Win'2012R2 to compile. TCL/TK are installed in C:\TCL

I have tried all of these TCL installers:

Thomas Perschak, BAWT Project, Magicsplat

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Fulvio — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:15:10 -0000

It is caused by the tcl version: use tcl 8.6 (CONST84 was removed in tcl 9.0)

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yorkman — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 07:11:04 -0000

Getting these errors when compiling in Windows using Visual Studio 2019 (using current master):

tkscid.cpp(9162): error C2065: 'CONST84': undeclared identifier
tkscid.cpp(9162): error C2062: type 'char' unexpected
tkscid.cpp(9162): error C2143: syntax error: missing ';' before '{'

Any ideas?

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bstp — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:48:13 -0000

Hello,

I've edited the link to the master branch itself:

https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/code/ci/master/tree/

If this is too obscure, I'll add a wiki entry.