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| author | mdejong <mdejong> | 2001-11-07 23:37:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | mdejong <mdejong> | 2001-11-07 23:37:52 (GMT) |
| commit | 8f77862259393dc45b717b5271852458f33c2fad (patch) | |
| tree | 3b8a35efc9dbc4a378d4f1d5cb90d26d85bf60e0 /win/README | |
| parent | 513d743d0f05094ff7985f9840cc5db7f4bb3955 (diff) | |
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* win/README: Change minimum VC++ version to 5.X since
4.X is known not to work.
Indicate that Mingw is required and building with Cygwin
gcc is not supported. Include instructions that indicate
how to install Mingw and what URLs folks should use to
download the supported version of Mingw.
* win/configure: Regen.
* win/configure.in: Error out if user tries to compile the
Windows version of Tcl with Cygwin gcc. Users should compile
with Mingw gcc instead.
Diffstat (limited to 'win/README')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Tcl 8.4 for Windows -RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.22 2001/08/07 00:42:09 hobbs Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.23 2001/11/07 23:37:52 mdejong Exp $ 1. Introduction --------------- @@ -22,12 +22,22 @@ In order to compile Tcl for Windows, you need the following items: Tcl 8.4 Source Distribution (plus any patches) - Visual C++ 4+ + Visual C++ 5 or newer or Cygwin 1.1 (See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin) + Mingw (The gcc msvcrt 2.95.2-1 snapshot from http://www.mingw.org) + + ftp://ftp.nanotech.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/gcc-2.95.2-1/mingw-msvcrt-20000203.zip + ftp://ftp.nanotech.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/gcc-2.95.2-1/binutils-19990818-1-msvcrt.zip + ftp://ftp.nanotech.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/gcc-2.95.2-1/gcc-2.95.2-1-msvcrt.zip + + Extract the contents of these zip files into /usr/local/mingw and + place /usr/local/mingw/bin at the front of your PATH env var. + + In practice, this release is built with Visual C++ 6.0 In the "win" subdirectory of the source release, you will find @@ -39,7 +49,10 @@ the tcl libraries and the tclsh executable. If you are building with Cygwin, you can use the configure script that lives in the win subdirectory. The Cygwin based configure/build process works just like the UNIX one, so you will want to refer to -../unix/README for available configure options. +../unix/README for available configure options. An error will be +generated by the configure script if you try to compile Tcl with +the Cygwin version of gcc instead of the Mingw version. Check your +PATH if you get this error. In order to use the binaries generated by these makefiles, you will need to place the Tcl script library files someplace where Tcl can |