RE: Canonical Windows build environment?

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Hello Brandon,

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> Ok, as per INSTALL-win instructions, I've tried the following with
> Cygwin:
> 
> ./configure --x-includes=/usr/src/tcltk-20030901-1/tk/xlib/X11 --with-tc
> lconfig=/lib --with-tkconfig=/lib

Could you send the error output to the list? I would like to look 
at it, and if Juergen is around, he might also have something to 
say....  The problem with the INSTALL-win document is that it is 
an amalgam of his original doc (which dated back roughly 3 years 
ago and refered to much older packages) and updated information I 
put in. I took the liberty of updating some of his package 
references to newer ones, but did not necessarily verify that said 
packages still behaved in the way the old ones did. I did not hear 
Juergen complain, so I let things be, thinking that I had made 
reasonable assumptions. Have you tried building with the 
ActiveState Tcl/Tk? I have verified that.

It was my intent to verify things Juergen's way someday, and to do 
a purely MinGW32 build. I didn't consider them top priorities 
though, since I think the vast majority of our Windows users are 
interested in prepackaged binaries rather than building Xconq 
themselves.

> get the same choking, looking for Xlib.h.  Is that expected?  If

Not particularly. 

> estimate of when the major overhaul of the config and Makefiles will be
> completed?

I mentioned several weeks ago that the "major surgery" has been 
taken care of. Among other things, this means that the Windows and 
Unix builds of Xconq have been unified.  It doesn't have much to 
do with the Tcl/Tk build per se.

  Regards,
    Eric