Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin

[Keith Seitz]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 14:12, E. Weddington wrote:
> If I go and get just the gdb package, it doesn't seem (to me anyway) to require 
> tcl. If I get the insight package, then it requires tcl.

Right.

> So why can't insight go ahead and use a mingw version of tcl, even when gdb 
> still requires cygwin? I was under the assumption that the tcl/tk part of it 
> insight was just for the GUI, which was separate, somehow, from the underlying 
> gdb program. But I could be real wrong about this, as everything seems to get 
> bundled into one executable and a couple of dlls for tcl and tk.
> 
> (I would bet that the answer has something to do with the architecture of 
> insight that I don't know about.)

Nope. Cygwin. It's not nice to mix cygwin and msft runtimes. It's bad
juju. Since gdb requires cygwin, we use a cygwin version of tcl. If gdb
did not rely on cygwin, we would use a version of tcl that did not
require cygwin.

:-)
Keith