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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-12-14 Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@ActiveState.com>
+
+ * win/README: updated notes
+
2007-12-14 Zoran Vasiljevic <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>
* unix/tclUnixCompat.c (TclpGetHostByName): Really applied
diff --git a/win/README b/win/README
index 644dc45..69eda51 100644
--- a/win/README
+++ b/win/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Tcl 8.4 for Windows
-RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.30.2.1 2005/07/29 03:50:51 mdejong Exp $
+RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.30.2.2 2007/12/14 20:55:29 hobbs Exp $
1. Introduction
---------------
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ version of Tcl. This directory also contains source files for Tcl
that are specific to Microsoft Windows.
The information in this file is maintained on the web at:
+
http://www.tcl.tk/doc/howto/compile.html#win
The above URL includes a lengthy discussion of compiler macros necessary
@@ -24,55 +25,47 @@ In order to compile Tcl for Windows, you need the following:
and
- Visual C++ 5 or newer
+ Visual C++ 6 or newer
or
- Msys + Mingw
+ Msys + Mingw [http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml]
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/msys_mingw8.zip
- This Msys + Mingw download is the minimal environment
- needed to build Tcl/Tk under Windows. It includes a
- shell environment and gcc. The release is designed to
- make it as easy a possible to build Tcl/Tk. To install,
- you just download the zip file and extract the files
- into a directory. The README.TXT file describes how
- to launch the msys shell, you then run the configure
- script in the tcl/win directory.
+ This Msys + Mingw download above is the minimal environment needed
+ to build Tcl/Tk under Windows. It includes a shell environment and
+ gcc. The release is designed to make it as easy a possible to build
+ Tcl/Tk. To install, you just download the zip file and extract the
+ files into a directory. The README.TXT file describes how to launch
+ the msys shell, you then run the configure script in the tcl/win
+ directory.
In practice, this release is built with Visual C++ 6.0 and the TEA
Makefile.
If you are building with Visual C++, in the "win" subdirectory of the
-source release, you will find "makefile.vc". This is the makefile for
-the Visual C++ compiler and uses the stock NMAKE tool. Detailed
-directions for using it, are in the comments of "makefile.vc". A quick
-example would be:
+source release, you will find "makefile.vc". This is the makefile for the
+Visual C++ compiler and uses the stock NMAKE tool. Detailed directions for
+using it, are in the comments of "makefile.vc". A quick example would be:
+
C:\tcl_source\win\>nmake -f makefile.vc
There is also a Developer Studio workspace and project file, too, if you
would like to use them.
-If you are building with Msys or Cygwin, you can use the configure script
-that lives in the win subdirectory. The Msys or Cygwin based configure/build
-process works just like the UNIX one, so you will want to refer to
-../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. Be aware that gcc will generate
-lots of compile time warnings when building Tcl. Warnings are
+If you are building with Msys, you can use the configure script that lives
+in the win subdirectory. The Msys based configure/build process works just
+like the UNIX one, so you will want to refer to ../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. Be aware that gcc
+will generate lots of compile time warnings when building Tcl. Warnings are
not errors, so please don't file a bug report about them.
-In order to use the binaries generated by these makefiles, you will
-need to place the Tcl script library files someplace where Tcl can
-find them. Tcl looks in one of following places for the library files:
-
- 1) The path specified in the environment variable "TCL_LIBRARY".
-
- 2) Relative to the directory containing the current .exe.
- Tcl will look for a directory "..\lib\tcl8.4" relative to the
- directory containing the currently running .exe.
+Use the Makefile "install" target to install Tcl. It will install it
+according to the prefix options you provided in the correct directory
+structure.
Note that in order to run tclsh84.exe, you must ensure that tcl84.dll
and tclpip84.dll are on your path, in the system directory, or in the
@@ -83,10 +76,11 @@ Note: Tcl no longer provides support for Win32s.
3. Test suite
-------------
-This distribution contains an extensive test suite for Tcl. Some of
-the tests are timing dependent and will fail from time to time. If a
-test is failing consistently, please send us a bug report with as much
-detail as you can manage. Please use the online database at
+This distribution contains an extensive test suite for Tcl. Some of the
+tests are timing dependent and will fail from time to time. If a test is
+failing consistently, please send us a bug report with as much detail as
+you can manage. Please use the online database at
+
http://tcl.sourceforge.net/
In order to run the test suite, you build the "test" target using the