This package contains the sources of the XBoard-compatible Chess and
Chess-variant engine Fairy-Max, and its dedicated derivatives ShaMax
(for Shatranj) and MaxQi (for XiangQi = Chinese Chess). A Makefile
is provided to compile and install them. Normally this would require only
the command (given from the main directory of the package):

sudo make install

This will install the executables in /usr/games, (where XBoard expects
them), and their data files in /usr/share/games/fairymax.

Should you want to compile by hand, you could use the following
commands:

gcc -O2 fairymax.c -o fairymax

gcc -O2 fairymax.c -DSHATRANJ -o shamax

gcc -O2 maxqi.c -o maxqi

In this case you will get versions that expect their fmax.ini or qmax.ini
files in the current direcory. To change the default path of the ini files,
you can include the argument

-DINI_FILE=\"pathname\"

to the gcc compilation command line.

H.G.Muller