Re: Tcl 8.4.6 Source - Compiling under Windows Services for Unix.

From: Adrian Bowen (raptor_at_cix.co.uk)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:30:54 -0000

Hi,

LOL, don't delete the unix directory!!!

SFU is 'UNIX', to all intents and purposes. I am sure there are all sorts of
legal and copyright quibbles arising from that statement, but to be honest,
as someone who just wants to gets the job done by the most convenient means
possible, that is the way I treat it.

I have Solaris 8, Redhat 9 and SFU 3.5 running on different machines on my
network, all executing parts of a large 'legacy' distributed application
orginally written back in the stone age for SunOS 4, and all compiling from
the same source code. The app is X Window System based, and makes extensive
use of Tcl as an embedded interpreter, and IWidgets/Tk as the GUI.

To be honest, Solaris is the OS that gives me the most compatibility
problems out of these three. I am still using the SparcWorks C compiler and
csh on that, whereas SFU and Redhat both support gcc and tcsh.

SFU is, to my mind, an absolute gem. It happily chunters away in the
background looking to the rest of my network like a fast UNIX machine while
I play Sims Online on the Windows desktop.

Adrian Bowen

"David Gravereaux" <davygrvy@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:4pkg4090qpe4mb6cfr88dqlj0scs82tc2r@4ax.com...
> vitus@45.free.net (Victor Wagner) wrote:
>
> >I do. I have WinXP installed under VMWare and run cygwin on it.
> >No problem except dependency problems which trouble cygwin regarless of
> >platform.
> >
> >As for wine, I doubt that there is any use for running cygwin under
> >wine. If you have wine, it makes running Win32 executables (those which
> >run) almost indistinguishable from running native Linux program.
>
> HeHe.. Actually, I meant a Linux install on VMWare running on XP (over
remote
> desktop to a Win2K box through a VPN). And on Linux, run cygwin under
wine :)
> But can I copy from notepad to the clipboard on the Win2K box and paste it
into
> cygwin's MUTT client.. that's the big question I have.
>
> Anyways.. I think the OP should just delete the unix directory so he
doesn't
> view Tcl as a unix application and build from the win directory with a
native
> compiler such as microsoft's own VisualC++, which I believe they still
support.
> --
> David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
> [species: human; planet: earth,milkyway(western spiral arm),alpha sector]

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