New engine: belofte

[JohnW]

Hi Yves,

When I try to download the file it says I am going to download version 0.9.12.

Hello Gabor!

The latest version is here :
https://sourceforge.net/p/belofte/gitre ... t/Release/

Regards.

Roland

Sorry for the dumb question, but is this a uci engine? It won't register in the Fritz gui and in Arena it won't make a move.

[Gabor Szots]

Hi Yves,

When I try to download the file it says I am going to download version 0.9.12.

Hello Gabor!

The latest version is here :
https://sourceforge.net/p/belofte/gitre ... t/Release/

Regards.

Roland

Thanks Roland. Unfortunately I can find no Win64 executable there only a bunch of source files to be downloaded one by one. What am I missing?

[Roland Chastain]

Thanks Roland. Unfortunately I can find no Win64 executable there only a bunch of source files to be downloaded one by one. What am I missing?

Indeed, there is only a Win32 binary.

[Roland Chastain]

Sorry for the dumb question, but is this a uci engine? It won't register in the Fritz gui and in Arena it won't make a move.

Yes, it's an XBoard engine.

[Gabor Szots]

Sorry for the dumb question, but is this a uci engine? It won't register in the Fritz gui and in Arena it won't make a move.

Yes, it's an XBoard engine.

Only, at the site you can read: 'The program interfaces according to the Winboard/Xboard 2 protocol or the
UCI protocol.'

[Roland Chastain]

Only, at the site you can read: 'The program interfaces according to the Winboard/Xboard 2 protocol or the
UCI protocol.'

I believe that UCI support is in experimental state. For now, the engine works as an XBoard engine.

[ydebilloez]

Sorry for the dumb question, but is this a uci engine? It won't register in the Fritz gui and in Arena it won't make a move.

Yes, it's an XBoard engine.

Only, at the site you can read: 'The program interfaces according to the Winboard/Xboard 2 protocol or the
UCI protocol.'

UCI version has its separate executable. I did not generate a Windows UCI executable, only linux 32/64 bit. A Windows UCI version can be generated by compiling with the -DFEATURE_UCI_INTERFACE flag as you can read in the compile.sh script. I am working on a new version that does no longer require to have 2 different executables, one for Winboard and one for UCI.
As UCI is not yet 100% stable, please use WB version. I hope to hava a full UCI supported version in about 1 week.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Gabor Szots]

When compiling, I get a 700 kB (!) error log file. Some message types:
1. alg1_board.cpp:116:10: error: invalid preprocessing directive #access_urls
#access_urls .btn-set {
2. alg1_board.cpp:118:24: error: exponent has no digits
min-width: 14em;
3. alg1_board.cpp:260:68: error: stray '@' in program
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops" rel="nofollow">@sfnet_ops</a></li>
4. alg1_board.cpp21: error: too many decimal points in number
<span>belofte-0.9.14</span>

And so on. Any hints?

[ydebilloez]

When compiling, I get a 700 kB (!) error log file. Some message types:
1. alg1_board.cpp:116:10: error: invalid preprocessing directive #access_urls
#access_urls .btn-set {

Dear Gabor,

You seem to compile some html, not the actual source code. I posted the sourcecode in a zip file here:
http://macchess.internetcontact.be/down ... 14-src.zip
In http://macchess.internetcontact.be/downloads/, you can also download the complete binary package for all platforms and all versions.
(http://macchess.internetcontact.be/down ... .14.tar.gz)

Normally, you should be able to compile with DevC++ (project file is in sourceforge repository) or with GNU C++ (g++).
Below: 32 / 64 bit with UCI or WB:
g++ -m64 -O3 -Dpthread ../src/*.cpp -pthread -s -o ../dist/Release/Linux-x86_64/belofte-current -lstdc++ -fno-pie -no-pie
g++ -m64 -O3 -Dpthread -DFEATURE_UCI_INTERFACE ../src/*.cpp -pthread -s -o ../dist/Release/Linux-x86_64/belofte-uci-current -lstdc++ -fno-pie -no-pie
g++ -m32 -O3 -Dpthread ../src/*.cpp -pthread -s -o ../dist/Release/Linux-x86/belofte-current -lstdc++ -fno-pie -no-pie
g++ -m32 -O3 -Dpthread -DFEATURE_UCI_INTERFACE ../src/*.cpp -pthread -s -o ../dist/Release/Linux-x86/belofte-uci-current -lstdc++ -fno-pie -no-pie

Regards,

[Gabor Szots]

When compiling, I get a 700 kB (!) error log file. Some message types:
1. alg1_board.cpp:116:10: error: invalid preprocessing directive #access_urls
#access_urls .btn-set {

Dear Gabor,

You seem to compile some html, not the actual source code. I posted the sourcecode in a zip file here:
http://macchess.internetcontact.be/down ... 14-src.zip
In http://macchess.internetcontact.be/downloads/, you can also download the complete binary package for all platforms and all versions.
(http://macchess.internetcontact.be/down ... .14.tar.gz)

Normally, you should be able to compile with DevC++ (project file is in sourceforge repository) or with GNU C++ (g++).
Below: 32 / 64 bit with UCI or WB:
g++ -m64 -O3 -Dpthread ../src/*.cpp -pthread -s -o ../dist/Release/Linux-x86_64/belofte-current -lstdc++ -fno-pie -no-pie
g++ -m64 -O3 -Dpthread -DFEATURE_UCI_INTERFACE ../src/*.cpp -pthread -s -o ../dist/Release/Linux-x86_64/belofte-uci-current -lstdc++ -fno-pie -no-pie
g++ -m32 -O3 -Dpthread ../src/*.cpp -pthread -s -o ../dist/Release/Linux-x86/belofte-current -lstdc++ -fno-pie -no-pie
g++ -m32 -O3 -Dpthread -DFEATURE_UCI_INTERFACE ../src/*.cpp -pthread -s -o ../dist/Release/Linux-x86/belofte-uci-current -lstdc++ -fno-pie -no-pie

Regards,

Hi Yves,

I seem to have lost my way among the various files in your site. Thanks for the detailed explanation, I'm going to try them and won't bother you any more.

EDIT: Success!