Re: Canonical Windows build environment?

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Hello Brandon,

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> Configure works fine.  

Good.

>The 7.4.1 sources fail with errors in win32.c.  I

You would be better off using the CVS sources.
Or if you want an .exe just to play with, you can grab stuff off 
my Xconq Web site: http://eric_mcdonald.home.comcast.net/xconq

> assume nobody's interested in figuring out why that might be.  :-)  The

If you have trouble building the Windows Tcl/Tk executable with 
the latest CVS sources, I am actually quite interested to hear....

> CVS sources fail anywhere <Tk.h> get used, it seems it's seeking
> <X11/Xlib.h>.  Don't know if that's XConq or Cygwin's TK messing that
> up.  As far as I know there's no X11 installation available for Cygwin.

Are you using the --x-includes flag to tell configure where the 
_correct_ X11 headers can be found?

> from www.mingw.org to be an utter horror to work with.  I gave up and

It's not so bad. We use the MinGW32 mode/subset of Cygwin to build 
the Windows SDL executable....

> There is no INSTALL-win file in CVS,

Yes there is.

> Would be nice if there was one.  Think of all the people who will read
> the README, look for the mentioned INSTALL-win, and burst into tears
> when it isn't there.  :P-(

But it is there. Please make sure you have checked out a recent 
CVS version.

  Regards,
   Eric