C++ Issues

[halitechallenge]

C++ Issues

[julskast]

https://forums.halite.io/t/bug-reports-and-sharp-edges/105/3

[markstev]

Regarding 1a, this was on linux (ubuntu) using a droplet instance I created about a year ago. Maybe I should just keep my machine more up to date, but a year isn't that old. I am not a compiler expert, but my understanding is that just adding the flag "-static" to the compile options should make the compiled binary less susceptible to environment differences between where you compiled and where users run it, with the downside of making the binary larger and slower to compile (though I doubt those are significant issues in the context of halite).

[snaar]

1a was fixed already some time ago, can you double-check? 1b is in progress - I expect to release it in about a day or two.

[snaar]

If you want, you can try cpp-client branch in Snaar/Halite-II - the communication with server is good now, but everything else is ugly.

[markstev]

Thanks! I'm on my way to work now, but I'll try it tonight.

[snaar]

Actually, if you got the binary from website just now recently, maybe it's a sign website has old build. @harikmenon can you check if website pack has recent halite build?

[harikmenon]

I built it at 6:00 pm last night, any changes after that?

[snaar]

Ok I've just checked both https://halite.io/assets/downloads/Halite2_Linux-x64.zip and https://halite.io/assets/downloads/Halite2_C++_Linux-x64.zip and they both have statically linked halite:

$ ldd halite 
	not a dynamic executable

What does ldd say on your machine?

[snaar]

C++ client in github should be good for linux/gcc now. I know that MSVC is broken right now for sure, I'll look at it later. Not sure about clang.

[snaar]

Fixed MSVC.

[harikmenon]

@snaar , do you want me to build and deploy executables for all platforms?

[snaar]

Yes! We can close the issue then. I'll still have updates to the library coming, but they are all going to be mostly cosmetic.

[snaar]

Oh, to be clear, this is cpp client, not halite, so we don't need to pre-build anything, just update the cpp starter kit, right?

[harikmenon]

Oh okay my bad. Looks good. Closing this now

[snaar]

@markstev feel free to reopen if you have more data about static linking not actually being static