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@@ -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 |