Tcl/Tk MSVC++ dlls and g++

[Christopher Hylands]

I'm a MSVC++ newbie, so this might be a silly question, but here goes.

I'm trying to compile Ptolemy, a package that uses g++, but I need to
link with Tcl/Tk and Itcl.  The Tcl/Tk and Itcl C dlls made with the
MSVC++ compiler.  I'm trying my compile under VC++4.0 under NT4 with
the 17.1b tools.

 When I first tried to link with the Tcl and Itcl libraries with:

g++ -L../../lib.nt4  -Wl,-s  ptclAppInit.o     version.o -lptcl -lexttools \
    -lptmatlab -lptmathematica -lptolemy c:/Itcl2.2/itcl/win/Itcl22.lib  \
           c:/Itcl2.2/tcl7.6/win/Tcl76i.lib  -lg++  -lm  -o ptcl.ptiny

I got messages like:   
   c:/Itcl2.2/tcl7.6/win/Tcl76i.lib(Tcl76i.dll)(.idata$2+0x0): multiple definition of `idata$2'
   c:/Itcl2.2/itcl/win/Itcl22.lib(Itcl22.dll)(.idata$2+0x0): first defined here
   c:/Itcl2.2/tcl7.6/win/Tcl76i.lib(Tcl76i.dll)(.idata$2+0x0): multiple definition of `idata$4'
   c:/Itcl2.2/itcl/win/Itcl22.lib(Itcl22.dll)(.idata$2+0x0): first defined here
   c:/Itcl2.2/tcl7.6/win/Tcl76i.lib(Tcl76i.dll)(.idata$2+0x0): multiple definition of `idata$5'
   c:/Itcl2.2/itcl/win/Itcl22.lib(Itcl22.dll)(.idata$2+0x0): first defined here
   C:\cygnus\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\i386-cygwin32/cygnus-2.7.2-961023/libgcc.a
   
I created a library called TclItcl.dll by combining the tcl and itcl
.obj files and then linked with:

g++ -L../../lib.nt4  -Wl,-s  ptclAppInit.o     version.o -lptcl -lexttools \
-lptmatlab -lptmathematica -lptolemy c:/Itcl2.2/itcl/win/TclITcl.lib  \
-lm  -o ptcl.ptiny
   
This worked, a binary was produced, but when I started it up, I got
he message:

"The procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library TclITcl.dll"

Has anyone had any success combining Tcl/Tk and g++? 
Can anyone send me either a g++ link line or a makefile.vc that does
the trick?

http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/faq.html says 

      Can I mix objects compiled with msvc++ and gcc? 

      Yes, this supposedly works. The key seems to be using MS's
      LINK.EXE to do the linking instead of GNU ld. There may be
      issues with constructor calls for C++/Obj C.

The problem here is that tcl/tk is compiled using MS visual c++,
and we need to have g++ set things up for our constructors. It
could be that there is a bug in how I built the shared library, but
it looks ok

See http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu for information about Ptolemy
See http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/nt-ptolemy for more info about
my efforts to compile Ptolemy
   
-Christopher
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