Re: Compiling win32 under Cygwin

["smsutton at iwon dot com" <smsutton at iwon dot com>]

Yes, they are really that different. Look in the config files for TCl and Tk 8.4.1 for the -D's for Tcl and the -L lines for Tk. If you copy them into your makefiles, you might be able to compile with the newer version. I was. but I'm trying to do it automatically by creating a new configure.in file that hadles this correctly. The librairs for Tk under Win 2K were mostly system libraries that Cygwin translates UNIX calls to, and the functions are supported differently for Win9x and NT, hince the much different xConfigh.sh files. One other thing you might need to do is change -mwindows to -mwin32 to go from 16bit application to 32 bit application.




 --- On Mon 12/02, smsutton@iwon.com  wrote:From: smsutton@iwon.com [mailto: smsutton@iwon.com]To: vinnyjojo@yahoo.com, smsutton@iwon.com     Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.comDate: Mon,  2 Dec 2002 10:50:47 -0500Subject: Re: Compiling win32 under Cygwin Yes, they are really that different.  Look in the config files for TCl and Tk 8.4.1 for the -D's for Tcl and the -L lines for Tk.  If you copy them into your makefiles, you might be able to compile with the newer version.  I was.  but I'm trying to do it automatically by creating a new configure.in file that hadles this correctly.  The librairs for Tk under Win 2K were mostly system libraries that Cygwin translates UNIX calls to, and the functions are supported differently for Win9x and NT, hince the much different xConfigh.sh files.  One other thing you might need to do is change -mwindows to -mwin32 to go from 16bit application to 32 bit application.


 --- On Mon 12/02, Joe R  wrote:From: Joe R [mailto: vinnyjojo@yahoo.com]To: smsutton@iwon.com     Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.comDate: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 07:29:36 -0800 (PST)Subject: Re: Compiling win32 under Cygwin
Cool!

I'm running the latest cygwin api on my win2k machine, so I can test
using that, if you like.  My build failed using a tcl/tk v8.4.1
install, however, so caveat emptor.  I may also be able to test vs. a
FreeBSD v4.5 install (I'm trying to build out a Web and mail server,
and this happens to be my OS of choice :) ).

Re: cygwin, do things really work differently on win98 vs nt/2k?  My
impression was that, from cygwin's point of view, it's all the same.

Hans, re: the memory problem you mentioned, how do I test for it?  Is
there a testcase out there somewhere?  Instructions?


-j


--- "smsutton@iwon.com"  wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm about 2/3rds of the way through writting a new configure.in
> script.  It's shaping up pretty well, and gets all the varibles from
> tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh correctly.  It works a little differntly
> form the current version, in that it looks for a working tclsh and
> uses the path to that to get the path to the includes and libs for
> Tcl.  Similarly, it finds wish for tk.  I'm adding in code to check
> for tcl and tk directories if it doesn't find an installed version,
> and run configure on them if they are found.
> 
> If you look in tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh, you'll find the
> additional defines and libraries that the two need to link.  They
> vary a lot between cygwin 98 and cygwin NT 2000.  The compile flags
> number about 20 on 08, but only 2 on NT for tcl, 98 only needs one
> additional library for Tk, but NT needs 5.  So it's important,
> particularly for cygwin, to be able to reference the tclConfig.sh and
> tkConfig.sh files.
> 
> Once I'm happy with the script, I'll need for people in different
> environments to test it for me.  I can test on Solaris 2.8 (native
> and gcc), Solaris 2.6 (native), IRIX (native), Win98 (cygwin),
> NT200(cygwin), and possible Linux (RH 7.2) and AIX (native).  For the
> first round, I'd just want the results of running autconf and
> configure (config.status, configure.log, and configure).  Once I'm
> happy with that I'll make the changes needed in the Makefiles.
> 
> Longer rnage, what would you think about adding an xcconf.h.in file
> to encapsulate information about system dependant routines that
> configure can test for and set flags for?
> 
> Even longer term would be seeing if there is a way to run configure
> in a command shell. Ha Ha :-)
> 
> 
>  --- On Sun 12/01, Hans Ronne  wrote:From: Hans Ronne [mailto:
> hronne@telia.com]To: vinnyjojo@yahoo.com     Cc:
> xconq7@sources.redhat.comDate: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 04:00:18 +0100Subject:
> Re: Compiling win32 under Cygwin>I'm now able to compile, using the
> correct x-includes directive!  And
> >yes, it runs.  I don't have a standard cygwin install, though, and
> >here's what I did to get it to work:
> 
> So what cygwin are you using instead of the standard install? b20?
> 
> >1) Checked out the latest from CVS.  I had edited the makefiles et
> al
> >in the previously checked-out version, so I decided to make a clean
> >(mostly) start of it.
> 
> >2) Tried ./configure --x-includes=install >  Configured just fine,
> but had to a) add tkwin32.o to my
> >xconq: make instruction; b) add the same to the exec'd command in
> that
> >instruction; c) change the TCLTK_LIB flag to point to my libs (used
> >'-L/usr/local/lib -lltcl84s.a -ltk84s.a -lm).
> 
> And Stanley used:
> 
> -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl84g -ltk84g -lm
> 
> in the Makefile he posted earlier. Would just:
> 
> -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl -ltk -lm
> 
> work for both of you? We should try to keep things as general as
> possible.
> 
> When I ran make, I ran
> >into the following:
> >
> 
> ...
> 
> >Anybody want to comment on what this might be?  No idea, and the
> cygwin
> >mailing lists aren't much help, either.
> 
> Nope. But since Stanley didn't see it (using tcl8.4.1) it must be
> specific
> to your build.
> 
> >3) Decided to fall back to my tcl/tk 8.3 install.  I had installed
> this
> >from the ActiveState distro a little while ago, just trying to get
> the
> >game going.  I used ./configure --x-includes=/cygdrive/d/Tcl/include
> as
> >my configure command (after doing a make distclean to tidy things up
> a
> >bit) and it generated ALMOST the correct makefiles.  I again had to
> >change the xconq instruction to include tkwin33.o and point it to
> the
> >correct libs.  Ran make, and it made just fine!
> >
> >First time I ran the game, forgot I had to include the tcl and tk
> dll's
> >in the working path; copied them in, and it ran without trouble,
> too.
> >Everything looks great :)
> 
> Have you tested what games you can run without the memory problem?
> Would be
> interesting to know.
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
> 
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