failure to build Tcl8.3.2 by Cygwin on Win98

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com> wrote:
> 
> > > When the Tcl 8.4 release is finished,
> > > it should work with Cygwin.
> > > 
> > 
> > Cool.  BTW, the unix version of both tcl and tk build with Cygwin now.
> 
> I assume you are talking about one of the ports on the
> sourceware site? 

You assumeed wrong.  I've built the unix source of tcl 8.4a1 and tk 8.4a1.  Of
course the tk executable requires the X11 libraries and headers from
Cygwin-Xfree and then requires an X server; but, it builds and works. ;)

> The current release (8.3.2) of Tcl/Tk
> does not compile "out of the box" with Cygwin. I am
> very interested in getting the fixes needed to
> compile Tcl under Cygwin into the 8.4 release.

The UNIX source does build.  CC='gcc -mno-win32'.

> It should not be all that hard, it looks like
> some problems with MS specific #includes and
> use of __try which cygwin does not like.
> 

Oh,  yes those MS extensions.  Anyone up to adding the code necessary to GCC to
have these features working?

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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