Runnin edax-reversi on mac about edax-reversi HOT 8 CLOSED

@ishanSrt I got it to work on a MBP 2018:
Install GCC compiler (I use Homebrew): brew install gcc
cd ~/edax-reversi/src
mkdir ../bin (this is important!)
Unzip eval.7z to ~/edax-reversi/bin (such that ~/edax-reversi/bin/data/eval.dat exists)
make build ARCH=x64-modern COMP=gcc OS=osx
Now you should see ~/edax-reversi/bin/mEdax
You might need to do chmod +x ~/edax-reversi/bin/mEdax in order to be able to run it standalone.

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I finally compiled the version 4.4 for Mac OS X after installing a virtual machine on my computer. For maximum compatibility I targeted the old nehalem CPU (which supports popcount instruction) and Mac-OS X 10.10 64 bits or later.

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try make pgo-build OS=osx COMP=clang
make release was for me to compile for all platform from linux (unfortunately, the cross-compiler for apple osx is no more availabe in my linux distro).

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Hi! thanks for replying. I had already tried that earlier. Here's the log

building edax with pgo...
/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make clean
rm -f pgopti* *.dyn all.gc* *~ *.o generate_flip generate_count_flip *.prof*
clang -std=c99 -pedantic -W -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -Wno-invalid-source-encoding -O3 -flto -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -fuse-ld=gold -m64 -march=native -DUSE_GAS_X64 -DPOPCOUNT -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -mdynamic-no-pic -DHAS_CPU_64 -fprofile-instr-generate all.c -o ../bin/mEdax -lm -lpthread
clang: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=gold'
make: *** [pgo-build] Error 1

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Adding to the previous comment:
In order to get the pgo-build to work, you need to make sure there's no mEdax in ~/edax-reversi/bin, and you need to move the problem folder from ~/edax-reversi to ~/edax-reversi/bin.

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@abulmo This is probably not high on your priorities list, but in order to get rid of the clang: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=gold', I suggest switching to the LLVM linker. Reasoning can be found here: https://bcain-llvm.readthedocs.io/projects/lld/en/latest/

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I project to install OS X on a virtual box, so that I can provide and test binaries by myself and follow the evolution of the OS, compilers and other tools. The gold linker is indeed only available under Linux, and should not have been seen on the Mac compile. The lld linker might be a good replacement, but it is a "recent" addition to the llvm suite, at least compared to Edax age, so I did not used it at the time I produce Edax binaries.
Be patient as Edax is low now in my priorities, and I have too little time to spend on it.

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We can build edax for Mac,Windows,Linux with GitHub virtual machine.

If we create the job, anyone can obtain every executable assets.
Actually, I did.

If you agree this plan, I will create PullRequest.

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