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linrock / chess-puzzle-maker

Creates chess puzzles from chess games and positions
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instructions on how to properly add stockfish to your path would be appreciated #2

Open vesper8 opened 4 years ago

vesper8 commented 4 years ago

I downloaded Stockfish for MAC from the official Stockfish website and unzipped the archive

I tried a few things to add it to my path. I tried adding the executables to my bin path which is already part of my path, but that didn't work

I then tried adding the directory containing the 3 executables to my path, that also didn't work.

Finally, I added the executables to the root of the chess-puzzle-maker folder and edited the analysis.py to explicitly link to the executable (I replaced the _stockfish_command() by "./stockfish-11-64" in analysis.py

And that worked

I also tried running the ./build-stockfish.py but got a build error

And I don't understand how you're supposed to run inv update-stockfish

Some clarification would be much appreciated : )

Thanks for making this!

linrock commented 4 years ago

oops, the ./build-stockfish.sh script was broken when i tried it out just now. i just fixed it to use the official stockfish version, which seems to work: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish

i've also updated the code so that if you run ./build-stockfish.sh to compile your own Stockfish version, it priorities stockfish in your local directory so you don't have to modify your $PATH to get it working.

try installing pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install the python3 dependencies. if that works, then you should have the inv command available to run inv update-stockfish

that said, since you're on mac, you can install stockfish via homebrew (brew install stockfish) to avoid having to compile your own version