Need help compiling Xboard

Hey guys. I hope this is the right area to post this. If not, mods please move to right area.

Ok, I bought an ibook last Friday night. Let me say that i'm new to mac and to anything to do with unix. I am a quick learner though. Now, I downloaded a program called Xboard. Its a chess client for unix based systems. According to all the documentation, this is supposed to run on Mac OS X with the X11 environment installed. I installed the X11 package from the factory CDs. I opened a terminal and cd'd to the directory of the Xboard download. (It was on my desktop) Once inside that directory, I did ./configure. Its started doing something and then tells me that there are no gcc compilers in the path. I dont understand what this means. I've included a screen shot of the terminal. Is there anyone here that can help me get this installed??

You are missing the C compiler. The configure routine is checking to see if you have everything it needs to compile. You will need to get gnu c (gcc) or a c compiler to complete the process.

In case you don't know OS X come with a chess program.

Ok. I reinstalled the X packages and all and was able to get it to configure. (Thanks rman -- i know os x has a chess program but you cant connect to internet chess servers with it.. and fixation is just horrid)

i did ./configure and it went through that process. I then did 'make' and it went through that process. One set of instructions says that all I'm supposed to do but I cant figure out how to 'run' the program. Another set of instructions tells me that i'm supposed to go one step further and do 'make install' which i tried and it doesnt work. How do I run the program now?? What else am I supposed to do??

Look in the directory/folder where you did the ./configure and make. You should find a file most likely called xboard, since that is what you downloaded. To run the program do ./xboard. The readme file should also tell you how to run the program.

Ok. I found another issue. *I appreciate your help rman.* I've installed the X11 package like 5 times. However, there is no x11.app under Utilities. What am I doing wrong?? It says that it has installed it everytime. When I do a Command - Find, I dont find the x11.app file either. Only the installation package.

Look in the Utilities folder which is located in the Application folder.

rman, i said in my post that it wasnt in the utilities folder .

I called apple and they helped me figure it out. Thanks a lot for your help.

Some times when you are doing more than one thing at a time, you make little mistakes. So as it goes my bad.

no prob at all. I did all this work yesterday getting it to work and found Xboard well.... sucks/