Re: [Bug-XBoard] On building xboard/winboard on Windows

[Eric Mullins]

I just d/l the tarball and followed the instructions.  Worked fine.

Make sure you are in the winboard subdirectory.
Make sure you use nmake.  MSVC doesn't have a make utility.

Otherwise, please give the exact error message.

I see both makefiles in the winboard subdir.

John Summerfield wrote:
> I see a security issue in winboard, and thought to try to fix it.
>
> The only directions I see for building it are those included in the 
> tarball which, with some inconvenience, I've unpacked.
>
> I don't have CYGWIN, but do have the MS tools (no-charge version). 
> According to the README file in the package,
> ====
> You can build WinBoard using Microsoft Visual C with the following
> commands, or by opening the project in Visual Studio and clicking the
> build button.
>
>     cd winboard
>     nmake -f makefile.ms
>
> ===
> Wheter I can use the MS compile or not, the makefile does not exist. 
> Where do I find the proper instructions?
>
> I have the xboard 4.4.1 tarball.