Re: [gnugo-devel] Trouble importing "gnugo.h"

[Stuart A. Yeates]

If you want to write an interface, I suggest you write an interface
for GTP, since GnuGo speaks that.

You can then compile GnuGo in as POSIX-like an environment as possible
without all the GUI stuff.

cheers
stuart

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Biggles Bristol <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to write a (free) gnugo interface for the iPhone as a learning
> project, but I've hit a wall right from the start.
> When I import "gnugo.h", I get a host of warnings and errors (2097 & 2044
> respectively).
> Browsing through them, there are a few general themes emerging, and I was
> wondering if anyone might be able to help me work out how to move forwards
> with this?
> 1) I'm getting a name clash with the word 'shadow' which is defined in both
> board.h and MacTypes.h
> Now, I haven't really used all that much plain c (or obj-c) in the past so I
> might be missing something here, but is there a way to hide gnugo's internal
> names so that this sort of thing can't happen?  I don't really want to
> tinker with gnugo's internals at all and would be perfectly happy to use a
> limited external interface.
> 2) Every time a gnugo file includes "patterns.h" I get a warning saying
> "declaration does not declare anything", and then errors later in the file,
> often about an unrecognized variable name, eg pattern_attribute -> offset,
> which is defined in patterns.h
> 3) fd_set in gmp.c is undefined.  No idea what this is supposed to be.
> 4) Quite a few "warning: implicit declaration of function X" and "warning:
> incompatible implicit declaration of in-built function Y"
> An example would be 'strcmp' as X, or 'exit' as Y (both in transpat.c)
> 5) a bunch of errors in sgfnode.c and gg_utils.c which I don't entirely
> understand.  Some relate to 'VERSION', others talking about 'invalid storage
> class for function Z' and one seemingly to do with a structure being defined
> inside a parameter list...
>
> Any help on any of these would be much appreciated.
> I'm using gnugo 3.6 and XCode.
> Many thanks,
> Biggles
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