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Scriptics Corporation
scott.stanton@scriptics.com
-RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.17 2000/05/03 00:15:10 hobbs Exp $
+RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.18 2000/08/25 05:45:08 mo Exp $
1. Introduction
---------------
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ In order to compile Tcl for Windows, you need the following items:
Visual C++ 2.x/4.x/5.x
+ or
+
+ Cygwin 1.1 (See http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin)
+
In practice, this release is built with Visual C++ 5.0
In the "win" subdirectory of the source release, you will find
@@ -33,6 +37,11 @@ update the paths at the top of the file to reflect your system
configuration. Now you can use "make" (or "nmake" for VC++) to build
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.
+
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: