Re: Help on building GNU BG on Windows 10

[Øystein Schønning-Johansen]

I guess you can follow these steps:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

At step 6 -> Ubuntu 20.04 is probably a safe choice of distribution. 

(I would probably skip the optional step "Install Windows Terminal" at step 7, however your preference may be different)

When you have a running Ubuntu in WSL2, I can assist you further.

-Øystein

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:54 PM Turker Eflanli <turkereflanli@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Øystein,

Yes! Exactly what I want. Can you give more details on WSL 2? Where can I find more instructions?

Thank you!

Turker

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 8:51 AM Øystein Schønning-Johansen <oysteijo@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Turker!

If you just want the CLI of gnubg on Windows 10, maybe you can use WSL 2? It works pretty well, and I cannot imagine that GNU Backgammon will not be able to compile under WSL 2.

-Øystein

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:43 PM Turker Eflanli <turkereflanli@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, thanks for the reply.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 4:31 AM Guido Flohr <guido.flohr@cantanea.com> wrote:

Hi,

On 13 Oct 2020, at 5:33, Turker Eflanli <turkereflanli@gmail.com> wrote:

By the way, I am not interested in the graphics or board: just want to see how the engine works. Is there a way to disable the graphics compilation so that I can generate the gnubg-cli version only?

Unfortunately, there is no headless version of GnuBG.

Cheers,

Guido