Re: cygwin Tcl/Tk 20030214-1: [incr Tcl/Tk] interpreters missing

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:40:57AM -0800, Keith Seitz wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:39, Jerzy Witkowski wrote:
>> I refreshed my Cygwin installation and found out that [incr Tcl/Tk]
>> interpreters are missing. In the previous version Tcl/Tk interpreters were
>> named `cygtclsh80.exe', `cygwish80.exe', `cygitclsh30.exe' and
>> `cygitkwish30.exe'.
>
>I suggest you go to the official Tcl project pages and read up on Tcl
>8.4 and, especially "TEA", the Tcl Extension Architecture. There will
>never again be an Incr Tcl shell: it's not needed.
>
>To get an Itcl shell, you must configure the build with
>"--enable-shared" (on unix only -- cygwin always builds this way). When
>you start tclsh, give it the command "package require Itcl". This will
>load the Itcl extension. POOF! You know have an itclsh.exe. Do the same
>with wish, and you have an itkwish.exe.

That doesn't seem to work too well on cygwin:

couldn't load library "F:/cygwin/lib/itcl3.2/../libitcl32.a": invalid argument

cgf