Tcl Source Code

We use Tcl as an embedded interpreter within a larger
scientific visualization application, and we need
support for the 64-bit Windows platforms.  The old VC6
based makefiles won't work with Visual Studio 2005. 
Beyond that, there are a number of portability issues
in the source code itself that need to be addressed. 
Some others have also asked about this on the tcl-win
list, but I haven't seen any response from the core Tcl
devlopers in the last six months.

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The CVS builds for the head or core-8-4-branch.  We build directly on an x64 machine, so I'm pretty sure it works for the Makefile.in based system.

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Jeff,
  Thanks.  I'll take a look at the latest.  Is this in CVS, or are recent snapshots ok to test with?

Cheers,
  John

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I believe these are addressed now.  I'm not sure that mingw properly supports x64 builds (not officially), so MSVC is what should be used.

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Ok, after updating to the latest CVS, the escape character
issues are solved, but I still get build failures due to
mismatched types when building an x64 Tcl library/executable
with the cygwin tools.  I've attached the configure/make log
to show the errors.

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ack - you caught me.  I'd made the ".\" fixes in 8.4, but
not the head.  Please try again (once head propagates to
anoncvs).

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I've just attached the output from 'make -f makefile.vc' on
x64 as well for reference, it fails with mismatched type errors.

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Here's the output from a fresh 'cvs update -PAd' via cygwin,
on x64.  It still has issues with the escape character
sequenc e that configure generates in the compile line:  -I".\"
I thought that had been fixed already, but after doing the
CVS update, the problem still occurs.

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Tcl builds and runs fine on Win-x64 from the cygwin or
makefile.vc files.