Re: Problems building Tcl and Expect in MinGW

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 Wolfgang0815@xxxxxx wrote:

Does anyone know how to build and install Tcl and Expect (and maybe
Dejagnu) in MinGW?

Thanks in advance for any help!
Sorry for my crappy english!

Wolfgang

It appears that your configure is looking to a Unix build ...

I'd suggest that you go to the tcl source tree, and in the "win"
subdirectory, create a subdir called MingW (or similar). Then,
cd into the MingW subdir (under the "win" directory), and execute:
(eg: in the ./Tcl/tcl8.4.13/win/MingW subdir)

../configure

You may have to specify additional params (for includes, target etc), but
once you get configure running to completion and Tcl installed, you're off
to the races ...

I typically build on FreeBSD using the ports X development system for
MingW, and your mileage may differ, but in the past I've used MSYS to
compile and link a tcl/tk successfully on a windows box directly.

HTH: good luck.
Rob.

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