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Re: Patches for insight to work native on 64bit windows
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland Schwingel <roland at onevision dot com>
- Cc: insight at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:41:29 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patches for insight to work native on 64bit windows
- References: <4F608583.2000809@onevision.com>
On 03/14/2012 04:48 AM, Roland Schwingel wrote:
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.
That is excellent news. I haven't had much luck with Cygwin at all
lately, and I *really* wanted to get Linux, MinGW, and Cygwin working
"well" for a release. Alas, I have been swamped lately.
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.
This is an area I'd like to see change. I know that I have *not* used
the repo-supplied Tcl/Tk/itcl/iwidgets for well over two years. Instead
I use the system-supplied RPMs (Fedora 15).
But I'll bet that for Cygwin (and probably MinGW, too), we'll have to
keep using the in-repo version.
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.
Sounds good.
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.
Yeah, this stuff is way out of date, and to be honest, I'm not really
sure how much of it is used nowadays anyway. I few bits and pieces, I'm
sure (preferences, the tktable widget, one or two other bits). Since I
seldom (if ever) use windows, I am forced to rely on feedback/help from
actual users.
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.
I have been using 4.0.2 locally (again, on Fedora), so that should not
be a problem.
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.
Indeed. I've been using 3.4.7. All this speaks to a bigger question:
would it be possible to release system-supplied versions of tcl, tk,
itcl, itk, and iwidgets for Cygwin? I'm not sure how Chris, Corinna, et
al would feel about this, though. I don't know who would offer to
maintain those packages.
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?
Absolutely no objections. Send your patches along. [As I mention in
response to your other message, I may have to ask for an assignment
form. Unfortunately, despite my efforts through the years, I cannot seem
to get the FSF and Red Hat to agree to assigning ownership of gdb/gdbtk
and libgui to the FSF, so I need an assignment similar to what is used
for Cygwin contributions. Email me off-list and I can send you the form.]
Keith