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@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ In order to compile Tcl for Windows, you need the following: Msys + MinGW-w64 [https://www.mingw-w64.org/] (win32 or win64) + or + + LLVM MinGW [https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw/] + (win32 or win64, IX86, AMD64 or ARM64) + In practice, this release is built with Visual C++ 6.0 and the TEA Makefile. @@ -56,21 +61,15 @@ using it, are in the comments of "makefile.vc". A quick example would be: There is also a Developer Studio workspace and project file, too, if you would like to use them. -If you want to Cross-compile with Visual Studio (e.g. for X86 or ARM64 -targets, but running on AMD64), first set up the environment for -your host machine and compile nmakehlp.exe: - C:\tcl_source\win\>nmake -f makefile.vc nmakehlp -Then go to your cross-compile environment and run the nmake -command again for whatever you want to build. - If you are building with Linux, Cygwin or Msys, you can use the configure script that lives in the win subdirectory. The Linux/Cygwin/Msys based 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 option. Make sure that the x86_64-w64-mingw32 -compiler is present. For Cygwin this compiler can be found in the +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 "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 @@ -81,9 +80,9 @@ 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 tclsh86.exe, you must ensure that tcl86.dll is -on your path, in the system directory, or in the directory containing -tclsh86.exe. +Note that in order to run tclsh86.exe, you must ensure that tcl86.dll +and zlib1.dll are on your path, in the system directory, or in the +directory containing tclsh86.exe. Note: Tcl no longer provides support for Win32s. |