Re: [Scid-users] mac os x compile

2008-12-04 Thread Garth Corral
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > Any volunteer out there? There was once the discussion even > about a ready to run installer? What happened of that? > Tk 8.5 happened. -- SF.Net email is Sponsored

[Scid-users] Branches?

2008-11-29 Thread Garth Corral
Is there any chance a branch could be created from some past release so that maintenance can be continued on something more stable (and that doesn't require a new tcl/tk version)? It would be nice if all development didn't just march forward on the trunk with patch version numbers 23, 24, 2

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on Mac OS X

2008-11-20 Thread Garth Corral
On Nov 20, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Boris Hayete wrote: > To all Mac users out there, > > I've built the Scid distribution on Mac OS. Scid itself runs fine. > However, the main window doesn't have any menus (file, edit, options, > etc.). Has anyone else seen this problem? > This can happen if you try

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OSX -- Strange error message when compiling

2008-10-09 Thread Garth Corral
On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > Hello, > > After some tests, Garth helped me find the problem. Thanks a lot, > Garth ! > > Here is the result : Mac OS X users must install the X11 SDK.pkg in > XCode Tools/Package. > I should explain further because this could become a FAQ

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OSX -- Strange error message when compiling

2008-10-04 Thread Garth Corral
On Sep 28, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > I don't know : how can we tell ? > > In fact, isn't that what > > Location of "tcl.h": /usr/include > Location of "tk.h": /usr/include > Location of Tcl 8.4 library: /usr/lib > Location of Tk 8.4 library: /usr/lib > Location of X11 libra

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OSX -- Strange error message when compiling

2008-09-29 Thread Garth Corral
On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: >> > I installed the Developer tools some times ago. But since someone > from this mailing list told me to be sure to have a tcl-dev version, I > went for Tcl/Tk Aqua, batteries included, without modifying anything > during installation. It

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OSX -- Strange error message when compiling

2008-09-29 Thread Garth Corral
On Sep 29, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > To be sure, I modified this line : > > TCL_VERSION = 8.5 > > And hard coded my PATH into /etc/profile : > > Macintosh:~ bstp$ echo $PATH > /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/ > Versions/8.5:Library/Frameworks/Tk.

Re: [Scid-users] Compiling in TclTkAqua 8.5

2008-08-19 Thread Garth Corral
On Aug 19, 2008, at 12:26 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > On OSX you've tcsh, so you might try > The default shell on OS X from 10.4 onward is bash. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challe

Re: [Scid-users] Phalanx + Debian + gcc 4.3

2008-07-13 Thread Garth Corral
On Jul 13, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > Hi, > > Someone reported a small problem compiling Phalanx with Debian Linux > 4.0r3. >-- >.o/data.o: In function `initdist': >data.c:(.text+0x46): undefined reference to `taxi_dist' >data.c:(.text+

[Scid-users] fruit binary checked into cvs

2008-07-06 Thread Garth Corral
Could someone cvs rm it? I noticed that neither the toga II makefile nor the scid makefile remove this in their clean targets (though scid does for distclean). This should probably be removed on clean. - Sponsored by:

Re: [Scid-users] What's the official party line on crafty in the tree

2008-07-04 Thread Garth Corral
On Jul 4, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Garth Corral wrote: > > Hi! > >> There's been some talk recently of removing crafty from the tree. >> I think I can carve out a few moments this holiday weekend to >> finish up the OS X makef

[Scid-users] What's the official party line on crafty in the tree

2008-07-04 Thread Garth Corral
There's been some talk recently of removing crafty from the tree. I think I can carve out a few moments this holiday weekend to finish up the OS X makefile stuff and it makes a difference whether I have to deal with crafty or not. Anyone know what the plan is in this regard?

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-27 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > > > 2008/6/27 Garth Corral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Yes, I got it and now crafty works, except that it's unable to open > > book.bin and books.bin, any idea about this? > > > Not sure, rea

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Israel Chauca wrote: > On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Israel Chauca >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Jun 26

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Garth Corral wrote: >> :-) >> Oh yeah, that. >> >> That's not a problem with your particular crafty build, but is a >> crafty/os x issue. >> >> Crafty wants an enormous shared memory segment and os x has a >> so

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Garth Corral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Israel Chauca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I get the next text before crafty exits: >> >> unable to open book file [./book.bin]. &g

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
Please ignore that last message. Sending from my iPhone and sent too soon. I'll resent the complete message. > >> >> >>> - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for jus

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Israel Chauca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get the next text before crafty exits: > > unable to open book file [./book.bin]. > book is disabled > unable to open book file [./books.bin]. > ERROR. shmget() failed, unable to allocate a shared memory segment. >

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Israel Chauca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The version 21.6 of Crafty that comes with Scid compiles but doesn't > work in my machine (iMac G5 MacOS 10.5.3 Xcode 3). Is everybody else > having the same issue? > I'm running it on a dual G5 without issues. What do y

Re: [Scid-users] Next steps for Scid

2008-06-24 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: >> I have looked at it briefly since your email and yes, you >> are right, this OS X USB APIs are a different beast >> altogether. I had assumed (stupid) that they would have >> lower level APIs simlilar to BSD but I was quite wrong. >> As ne

Re: [Scid-users] Next steps for Scid

2008-06-24 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:16 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > dgtdrv itself sits on the dgtnix library which is portable between > OS, its done in plain POSIX C. dgtdrv itself is also plain C(++). > Its known to work on Linux and Windows at the moment afaik also on > BSD. We have an open issue on

Re: [Scid-users] Next steps for Scid

2008-06-23 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 22, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > On my current agenda: > > - DGT support: I really want to get it done for 3.6.25 to be > GA, I strongly hope I can manage that. > Not sure what is needed here but I'd be willing to help out if I can. I don't currently have a DGT board

Re: [Scid-users] 3.6.24

2008-06-19 Thread Garth Corral
My apologies for being absent recently. I've been really busy with work. I think I owe Pascal a few makefile changes. I have them and will try to make a patch before the release. It probably won't be today, though. I will see. On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Scid-users] SCID on Mac OS X

2008-06-07 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 7, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > Garth, > > Are these still the steps involved in the installation ? > > cd > curl -O http://www.abode.com/scid/scid-2008050503-osx-menus.tar.bz2 > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/scid2 > co -d scid scid2 # be sure you've logged

Re: [Scid-users] SCID on Mac OS X

2008-06-06 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Israel Chauca wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I must say that I'm impressed by the new features I found in scid, I > always used the version from the original project and I loved it > then, imagine how I like it now! > >>> Since I had a lot of things installed and custom

Re: [Scid-users] No menus on Mac OS X

2008-06-04 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 3, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Pascal Georges wrote: > There is no emergency for 3.6.24 final (we can always wait some > extra weeks), so just let me know when you expect to finish this. > With luck I should be able to get something together by the end of this week. It's not much but it should

Re: [Scid-users] No menus on Mac OS X

2008-06-03 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 3, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Israel Chauca wrote: > Hi, > > I compiled SCID using the Darwin config file and it compiled OK, but > when I open it I don't get the menus, the menu bar show the menus of > the terminal or the previous active application. Key shortcuts work, I > can open, create new da

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 3.6.24 RC1

2008-06-01 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 1, 2008, at 4:57 AM, pgeorges wrote: > Hi, > > I uploaded a release candidate of Scid 3.6.24 at > http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/download/ > > Feedback is welcome. > Hmm... Forgive me again for being the outsider here but wouldn't it be good to have some semblance of a release schedule wi

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Garth Corral
On May 22, 2008, at 4:02 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > Unfortunatley, I'm almost alone with the idea to use the > enterprise versions as basis, though. (Where I think Debian > stable is just a lower limit point everyone can meet > easily. For me this is a good thing.) For this reason I > think

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Garth Corral
On May 22, 2008, at 3:28 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > I thought Fink was supposed to take care of this kind of mess. Is > it not ? > I'm afraid Fink (or macports) isn't going to help with this particular mess and only serves to complicate the issue on OS X somewhat. Even if Fink would buil

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Garth Corral
On May 22, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Michal Rudolf wrote: > Garth Corral, czwartek, 22 maja 2008: > >> I don't think its an issue of one or the other. I can't speak to the >> case of the options menu but I think there are at least as many >> instances as not where

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-22 Thread Garth Corral
On May 22, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > > > Cleaning this stuff up to make a consistent and more > > standard UI would be effort better spent, and would not > > preclude moving to a newer tk version later. > > I agree here. > > I don't. I prefer a single step : more time efficie

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-21 Thread Garth Corral
On May 21, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why the work should be useless? The only thing to add is static Tcl > library, > built once (we won't be changing them). > Isn't it possible to create installation packages for Mac? And how > adding > newer Tcl library

Re: [Scid-users] Use of Tcl/Tk 8.5, was: Scid Pocket

2008-05-21 Thread Garth Corral
On May 21, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Cory Helfrich wrote: > On May 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Michal Rudolf wrote: >> >> Wasn't Scid compiled separately for Mac or FreeBSD? > No. I have not seen a working scid installation package for Mac yet. > I must compile scid from the source files to install it. Well, i

Re: [Scid-users] Scid Pocket

2008-05-20 Thread Garth Corral
Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Wagner, wtorek, 20 maja 2008: >> I just wanted to stress that someone who "just wants to play >> chess" might be more interested in just using the stuff and >> not that much in locating a s

[Scid-users] Is there a bug tracking system for scid?

2008-05-17 Thread Garth Corral
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Re: [Scid-users] Mac OS X dmg installer for Scid

2008-05-15 Thread Garth Corral
On May 15, 2008, at 1:11 AM, shiv shivaji wrote: > Good to know there is active work on the dmg file. > > Are you going to simply support an intel mac version of all engines > like crafty and toga due to not going universal? > No, not at all. I hope to be able to produce universal binaries at

Re: [Scid-users] Build configuration

2008-05-14 Thread Garth Corral
On May 14, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Cory Helfrich wrote: > Hello Garth, > ... > Thanks in advance for any help you can give. By the way, I tried to > build scid using the instructions you gave on May 4/5, but it failed. > Thanks for your input. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one interested in scid

Re: [Scid-users] Mac OS X dmg installer for Scid

2008-05-14 Thread Garth Corral
On May 14, 2008, at 11:12 PM, shiv shivaji wrote: > I saw there was a lot of interest in creating a dmg installer for > Mac OS X verion of scid. Ideally, this should be a universal binary. > I can volunteer to do the builds. Of course, I do not know much > about dmg creation as I am more a l

Re: [Scid-users] Installation paths, data directories, etc.

2008-05-14 Thread Garth Corral
On May 14, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > > So, what are each of these used for? In my world, this would be > static stuff that is installed by the administrator and is not > writable by the user, but I get the impression that this is not the > case. Alexander, what do

[Scid-users] Installation paths, data directories, etc.

2008-05-14 Thread Garth Corral
This subject was discussed a bit recently but I'd like to ask for input on some of these issues as they relate to OS X. In particular, Alexander had posted some opinions about this and I think I rather agree with him so I'm hoping he can share his thoughts on this. First, lets ignore for t

[Scid-users] Build configuration

2008-05-14 Thread Garth Corral
Hi all, I'm back again. Been really busy at work so I haven't had an opportunity to look at some things I'd like to do to enable easier OS X build/distribution. At one point I had promised to look at configuration with regard to the share dir. The changes I had made took away the ability

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-06 Thread Garth Corral
Sent from my iPhone On May 6, 2008, at 3:11 AM, "Pascal Georges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2008/5/6 Garth Corral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On May 5, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > > Indeed, I believe that is my fault and you have my sincerest > apo

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-06 Thread Garth Corral
Sent from my iPhone On May 6, 2008, at 3:27 AM, "Pascal Georges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with you. I certainly was too quick making some changes in ./ > configure (for config.tcl generation) and comiting the change that > got rid of "@SHAREDIR@" in config.tcl.conf (but nothi

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-06 Thread Garth Corral
Sorry about the previous response. On May 6, 2008, at 3:11 AM, "Pascal Georges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I will commit the change. > Could you also commit the icon and plist files from the tarball I made? Thanks in advance. Garth ---

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-06 Thread Garth Corral
On May 6, 2008, at 3:11 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > The solution is to simply ask PGN window to save/restore its size : > it used to save its geometry layout, but forgot to restore it. So it > is sufficient to add > > setWinSize $w > > instead of any "wm minsize ..." > > I will commit the

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-06 Thread Garth Corral
On May 5, 2008, at 1:55 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > > This brings up another topic. The scid_app target does not try to > build any engines nor include them in the bundle. I'm not quite sure > of the right thing to do here. On one hand, I like to install and > manage my engines independently, o

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-06 Thread Garth Corral
On May 5, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > > Indeed, I believe that is my fault and you have my sincerest > apologies. I did add a minsize to the pgn window precisely for the > reason that I stated, the window collapsed due to no other UI > elements. Perhaps I shou

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-05 Thread Garth Corral
On May 5, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > > On May 5, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: >> Pascal Georges wrote: >> >> Good Morning! >> >> [...] >>> Great. I commited your patches into CVS as 95% of it is ok (and this >>> wil

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-05 Thread Garth Corral
On May 5, 2008, at 9:00 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Pascal Georges wrote: > > Good Morning! > > [...] >> Great. I commited your patches into CVS as 95% of it is ok (and this >> will help me to start from that base). So we have time to think about >> the 5% left : @SHAREDIR@ in config.tcl.conf. >

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-05 Thread Garth Corral
On May 5, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > Maybe there are things I did not get, but I don't see the point in > packaging data and exec separately : I have some dependencies > between data and some features (training, books), and I'd prefer > things to come in one simple package. I

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-05 Thread Garth Corral
On May 5, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Marcin Kasperski wrote: >>> The point of this file was to make it possible to build scid >>> in Linux "packaged" way, where binaries and data are not >>> installed together, but we use sth like /usr/bin/scid (or >>> /usr/games/scid) and /usr/share/scid/data/ >> >> G

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-04 Thread Garth Corral
On May 4, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > > If any mac users want to try this out they can (SEE NOTES BELOW > FIRST): > > cd > curl -O http://www.abode.com/scid/scid-2008050503-osx-menus.tar.bz2 > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/scid2 > co - &g

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-04 Thread Garth Corral
On May 1, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Garth Corral wrote: > > On May 1, 2008, at 10:57 AM, pgeorges wrote: >> Garth Corral a écrit : >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Work that needs to be done: >>> 1.) Clean up the patch to catch and problems regressions on windows/

Re: [Scid-users] Minimum tcl version requirement?

2008-05-03 Thread Garth Corral
On May 3, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Garth Corral wrote: > > On May 3, 2008, at 2:16 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: >> Scid for PC relies on Tcl /Tk 8.4. I only ported Scid for Pocket PC >> to Tcl/Tk 8.5, but on Linux, Tcl/Tk 8.5 is not wide spread enough. >> >> So the question i

Re: [Scid-users] Minimum tcl version requirement?

2008-05-03 Thread Garth Corral
On May 3, 2008, at 2:16 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > Scid for PC relies on Tcl /Tk 8.4. I only ported Scid for Pocket PC > to Tcl/Tk 8.5, but on Linux, Tcl/Tk 8.5 is not wide spread enough. > > So the question is : does Scid binaries run out of the box with Tcl/ > Tk 8.5 ? I don't know, I have n

[Scid-users] Minimum tcl version requirement?

2008-05-03 Thread Garth Corral
Can anyone tell me what the minimum tcl version requirement is for running scid. I'm currently working on some changes to better support OS X and I'd like to know which features are safe to use. I'd hate to break things for folks running older versions of tcl but if there's already stuff

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-01 Thread Garth Corral
On May 1, 2008, at 1:19 PM, "Benoit St-Pierre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Garth, > > Would it be possible and easy to create and maintain a .dmg for OSX > users ? > This would be very interesting to improve Scid user base. > If it's so easy that even I can do it, I'd certainly do that

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-01 Thread Garth Corral
On May 1, 2008, at 10:57 AM, pgeorges wrote: > Garth Corral a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> Work that needs to be done: >> 1.) Clean up the patch to catch and problems regressions on windows/ >> unix. I'm sure there are nits in there as I have not extensively

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-01 Thread Garth Corral
On May 1, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Cory Helfrich wrote: > Hello Garth, > > > On May 1, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Garth Corral wrote: >> menu bar on top of the display as they expect. Now this will only >> work when built against the Tcl/Tk libraries shipped with OS X and >> wh

[Scid-users] Scid on OS X

2008-05-01 Thread Garth Corral
Hi all, I apologize if this posting is a bit long but I hope you'll bear with me. I have a few questions and comments regarding scid on OS X. First a bit of background. I'm recently back to trying to use scid on OS X after a very long time away. I had tried it out back in mid 2002 when