[ECOS] Re: eCos Configuration Tool experimental build for Vista

[Tyler Wilson]

Yes, I understand that now. Initially, I was approaching the tool as a
Windows user, with certain assumptions.

Part of the confusion on my part was that the configtool would give an
error when reading the ecos.db file, which gave no clue as to why it
might be failing. Perhaps a Tcl version/platform check ought to be done
in the application.

Tyler 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergei Gavrikov [mailto:sg@belvok.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:09 AM
> To: Tyler Wilson
> Cc: John Dallaway; ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: eCos Configuration Tool experimental build for
> Vista
> 
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 04:35:17AM -0700, Tyler Wilson wrote:
> > FYI, I have used this experimental build on Vista without any
issues.
> I
> > also used the previous version without incident as well though.
> >
> > One item that did hang me up for a while though was that the Windows
> > configtool is NOT compatible with the Windows Tcl (I used ActiveTcl
> from
> > ActiveState). You have to use the Tcl that is installed along with
> > cygwin. For some reason this was not clear to me. I would think
other
> > Windows users may get bitten here too.
> 
> Native builds Tcl/Tk for Windows know nothing about cygwin environment
> and cygwin paths, so, they won't be able execs cygwin's binaries and
> toolchains in a native maner without dances.
> 
> cygwin/mingw/uwin/sfu(interix) use own emulations of Unix environment,
> so they all use own Tcl/Tk builds.
> 
> Sergei


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