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Re: Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin
- From: "E. Weddington" <ericw at evcohs dot com>
- To: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "insight at sources dot redhat dot com" <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:24:37 -0600
- Subject: Re: Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin
- References: <40EEB5E3.16834.DDAE78EB@localhost>
On 9 Jul 2004 at 14:15, Keith Seitz wrote:
> > So why can't insight go ahead and use a mingw version of tcl, even when gdb
> > still requires cygwin? I was under the assumption that the tcl/tk part of it
> > insight was just for the GUI, which was separate, somehow, from the underlying
> > gdb program. But I could be real wrong about this, as everything seems to get
> > bundled into one executable and a couple of dlls for tcl and tk.
> >
> > (I would bet that the answer has something to do with the architecture of
> > insight that I don't know about.)
>
> Nope. Cygwin. It's not nice to mix cygwin and msft runtimes. It's bad
> juju.
Oh, right! D'uh.
>Since gdb requires cygwin, we use a cygwin version of tcl. If gdb
> did not rely on cygwin, we would use a version of tcl that did not
> require cygwin.
>
> :-)
Thanks for clarifying the issue!
Now it's time to talk to the mingw folks.....
Eric