Stockfish Admin

Installation Procedure

  1. Download the source. The canonical source location seems to change. Try the ones listed below.
  2. Compile and Install.
    
    /tmp% cd /src/util
    util% cp /tmp/Stockfish-sf_4.tar.gz .
    util% gunzip Stockfish-sf_4.tar.gz
    util% tar -xvf Stockfish-sf_4.tar
    util% cd Stockfish-sf_4/src/
    src% vi Makefile
    
         Set:
    
         PREFIX = /util/Stockfish-sf_4
    
    src% setenv PATH /usr/bin:${PATH} // Be sure to build with the system /usr/bin/gcc
    src% make build ARCH=x86-64 comp=gcc // NOTE: can also be comp=clang
    src% sudo make install
    src% cd /util
    /util% sudo rm Stockfish
    /util% sudo ln -s Stockfish-sf_4 Stockfish
    
    

References

  1. https://stockfishchess.org/download/
  2. https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/releases