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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Tcl 8.7 for Windows +Tcl 8.5 for Windows 1. Introduction --------------- @@ -9,43 +9,43 @@ that are specific to Microsoft Windows. The information in this file is maintained on the web at: - https://www.tcl-lang.org/doc/howto/compile.html#win + http://www.tcl.tk/doc/howto/compile.html#win 2. Compiling Tcl ---------------- In order to compile Tcl for Windows, you need the following: - Tcl 8.7 Source Distribution (plus any patches) + Tcl 8.5 Source Distribution (plus any patches) and - Visual Studio 2015 or newer + Visual C++ 6 or newer or - Linux + MinGW-w64 [https://www.mingw-w64.org/] + Linux + MinGW-w64 [http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/] (win32 or win64) or - Cygwin + MinGW-w64 [https://cygwin.com/install.html] + Cygwin + MinGW-w64 [http://cygwin.com/install.html] (win32 or win64) or - Darwin + MinGW-w64 [https://www.mingw-w64.org/] + Darwin + MinGW-w64 [http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/] (win32 or win64) or - Msys + MinGW-w64 [https://www.mingw-w64.org/] + Msys + MinGW-w64 [http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/] (win32 or win64) or - LLVM MinGW [https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw/] - (win32 or win64, IX86, AMD64 or ARM64) + Msys + MinGW [http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml] + (win32 only) In practice, this release is built with Visual C++ 6.0 and the TEA @@ -67,9 +67,8 @@ configure/build process works just like the UNIX one, so you will want to refer to ../unix/README for available configure options. If you want 64-bit executables (x86_64), you need to configure using -the --enable-64bit (or --enable-64bit=arm64) option. Make sure that -the x86_64-w64-mingw32 (or aarch64-w64-mingw32) compiler is present. -For Cygwin the x86_64 compiler can be found in the +the --enable-64bit option. Make sure that the x86_64-w64-mingw32 +compiler is present. For Cygwin this compiler can be found in the "mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core" package, which can be installed through the normal Cygwin install process. If you only want 32-bit executables, the "mingw64-i686-gcc-core" package is what you need. For Linux, Darwin @@ -80,13 +79,11 @@ 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 tclsh87.exe, you must ensure that tcl87.dll, -libtommath.dll and zlib1.dll are on your path, in the system -directory, or in the directory containing tclsh87.exe. +Note that in order to run tclsh85.exe, you must ensure that tcl85.dll is +on your path, in the system directory, or in the directory containing +tclsh85.exe. -Note: Tcl no longer provides support for systems earlier than Windows 7. -You will also need the Windows Universal C runtime (UCRT): - [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows-c0514201-7fe6-95a3-b0a5-287930f3560c] +Note: Tcl no longer provides support for Win32s. 3. Test suite ------------- @@ -96,7 +93,7 @@ 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 to our tracker: - https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/reportlist + http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/reportlist In order to run the test suite, you build the "test" target using the appropriate makefile for your compiler. |