Thanks!! Re: [gnugo-devel] Building GNU go - have I done it?

[Lou Cohen]

Dear GNU Go list, many thanks. Your advice did the job. I found the
executable, and have played my first game (actually just a few moves at this
point) against the program.

regards,
Lou Cohen

On 6/27/05 15:35, "    Marco Scheurer" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 27, 2005, at 04:12, Lou Cohen wrote:
> 
>> Dear GNU developers,
>> 
>> Many thanks for making a go-playing program available as open source
>> software. I learned about GNU go by running gGo, which provides an
>> option to
>> interface to GNU go. Of course I had not downloaded GNU go so I
>> went to your
>> website and downloaded the sources. Hmmmm, sources, not a binary!
>> well, what
>> do I know? I'll give it a try. I've never built a program on my Mac
>> before,
>> but maybe I can figure it out.
>> 
>> To make a long story short, I don't actually know if I've succeeded.
>> 
>> Below is the very long output that I got when I typed ./configure;
>> make.
>> 
>> I didn't dare run as wheel, I've never done it, so I figured
>> perhaps I could
>> make the executable file and point gGo to it.
>> 
>> My question is: have I succeeded?
> 
> I think so.
> 
>> When gGo asks me "where is GNU go", what
>> do I tell it?
> 
> It's in the interface folder, but you can take it and move it
> elsewhere. Another Terminal command that you can run after
> "configure" and "make" is:
> 
> cd interface
> strip gnugo
> 
> This will remove unnecessary symbols from the file and reduce its size.
> 
> marco
> 
> 
> Marco Scheurer
> Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland   http://www.sente.ch
> 

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