After a bit of hacking glChess can run on Windows. The only thing that would take major work is the AIs as they are forked off the main process (fork() is not supported in Windows). But aside from that with a few minor changes and running directly from the source leads to this:
I was very impressed with the quality of the Windows packages for the dependencies. When I tried this about a year ago it didn't appear they were all supported. They are now:
Python
* python-2.5.2.msi
Setuptools
* setuptools-0.6c8.win32-py2.5.exe
GTK
* gtk-2.12.9-win32-2.exe
PyGTK
* gtk-2.12.9-win32-2.exe
* pygobject-2.14.1-1.win32-py2.5.exe
* pycairo-1.4.12-1.win32-py2.5.exe
* pygtk-2.12.1-2.win32-py2.5.exe
Python Imaging Library
* PIL-1.1.6.win32-py2.5.exe
PyOpenGL
* PyOpenGL-3.0.0b1.win32.exe
PyGtkGLExt
* pygtkglext-1.1.0.win32-py2.5.exe
Gnome Games
* gnome-games-2.23.1.tar.bz2
12 comments:
Any idea why it didnt pick up the wimp gtk theme?
That is the MS-WINDOWS theme according to the theme selector. I'm running XP with the classic theme and it matches the rest of my desktop...
ahh, oops, didnt see you were running classic theme.
I don't have Vista bling :)
Great, now we only need apt-get for windows ;)
Excellent work, Robert. This will give a lot more people access to playing glChess (and gnome-games). Maybe we can begin packaging gnome-games for Win32 soon? Aisleriot already works on win32, as well.
Bob,
can you please put the executable online?
Thanks,
Unfortunately there is no executable... The above was run from source (Python is an interpreted language). More work would have to be done to make this into a distributable form.
Is posible add a "undo" button?
Please.
How compile the gnome-games with this tools?
Thanx
Hello!
I am sorry. I hace installed everything.
How I play GlChess?.
Thanx again!
Rocky, this is not a working release but a proof of concept.
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