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Patches for insight to work native on 64bit windows


Hi...

Some days ago I wrote that I am working myself on an insight version for windows native 64bit (mingw-w64). I am quite far with it. It runs quite fine here (both using gdb 7.4 and gdb head). I would like to send my patches.

For my personal version I am using tcl/tk 8.6 beta taken out of the fossil repos from core.tcl.tk (with some small windows specific changes). Insight still uses the tcl/tk 8.4 checked in the sourceware.org repos. In my eyes there is no way using tcl/tk 8.4 for windows 64bit. IMHO should the decision be taken to also update the version insight comes with to a more modern version.

The patches I want to send now are independant of the tcl/tk version used (backwardscompatible), so it is no prerequisite for my patches to perform the tcl/tk update. I got a bunch of patches in different areas.

gdbtk:
Mainly get rid of very long time deprecated tcl api which is no longer present in 8.6 plus some 64bit windows changes and a small needed bugfix in global preferences dialog.


libgui:
libgui hasn't seen any love for a very long time. I tried to keep my changes as minimal as possible, but to get it compiled for a 64bit windows and against newer tcl/tk required some changes.


iwidgets:
Need to be updated to version 4.0.2 (from 4.0.1) to work with tcl/tk 8.5 and up. I did (yet) not make any private changes here.


itcl:
I updated to version 3.4.1. The old 3.3 does not work well with newer tcl/tk versions. I took the itcl initscript (with small changes) from itcl4 so it works also with newer tcl/tk.


Now I am revisiting all my patches and want to send them the next days. I think I will start with gdbtk and libgui. I will try to group them in logical portions.

Any suggestions/objections?

Roland


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