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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000186 | ascend | build-windows | public | 2005-12-22 11:47 | 2008-02-10 13:03 |
| Reporter | john | ||||
| Assigned To | john | ||||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
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| Target Version | Fixed in Version | 0.9.6 | |||
| Summary | 0000186: ./configure doesn't detect ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.3 under MinGW/MSYS | ||||
| Description | Is there something we can change in trunk/base/autotools/configure.in so that this works? JP | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Here is the ./configure output: John@BOUDICA ~/src/ascend/base/autotools $ ./reconfig MINGW CONFIGURATION RUNNING CONFIGURE WITH ./configure --prefix=/home/John/ascroot --with-fortran=g77,/usr/lib/libf2c.a --enable-gcc --with-tcl=/c/Tcl/lib/tcl83.lib,/c/Tcl/include/tcl.h --with-tk=/c/Tcl/lib/tk83.lib,/c/Tcl/include/tk.h --with-wish=/c/Tcl/bin/wish --with-tktable=/c/Tcl/share/Tktable82/Tktable82.lib ... checking for printf in -lnsl... no checking for dlopen in -ldl... no checking for tcl library... /c/Tcl/lib/tcl83.lib checking whether /c/Tcl/lib/tcl83.lib is for Tcl8.3... yes checking for tcl header... /c/Tcl/include/tcl.h checking whether /c/Tcl/include/tcl.h is for version 8... yes checking for tk library... /c/Tcl/lib/tk83.lib checking whether /c/Tcl/lib/tk83.lib is for Tk8.3... no checking for a dynamically loaded Tk8.0 library checking for Tk_NameOfFont in -ltk8.0... no checking for Tk_NameOfFont in -ltk80... no checking for a dynamically loaded Tk8.3 library checking for Tk_NameOfFont in -ltk8.3... no checking for Tk_NameOfFont in -ltk83... no checking for Tk_NameOfFont in -ltk... no configure: error: Cannot find a compatiable Tk library. You must build and install Tk version 8.3 or newer before you can build ASCEND. If you have installed the correct version of Tk, run configure again with the argument: --with-tk=LIBRARY,HEADER where LIBRARY and HEADER are the full paths to the Tk8.3 library file and header file, respectively. |
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Adjust asc_tcl_library_dirs and asc_tk_library_dirs to include places that should be searched under windows if there are standards. Alternatively, if windows has a path which i'm not sure it reliably does, add the path variable to the AC_PATH_PROGS invocations that do the checking. While I was at cmu, tickle was never in a standard place in the window environments we encountered. |
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In general we tended in the past to err on the side of making the user be specific and explicit about their tcl. Frequently there is more than one version around and assuming-which-one==you-lose. |
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Reminder sent to: ben Observe that in my './configure' command I had actually explicitly told configure where the Tcl libraries were. The problem is not that the files were not found, it is that configure rejected them... it seemed to me that the problem was occurring somewhere like this, in configure.in: # verify the TK_LIB # if test ! "X$TK_LIB" = X_searching ; then AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $TK_LIB is for Tk8.0]) asc_libs_orig=$LIBS LIBS="$TK_LIB $TCL_LIB $X11_LIBRARIES -lX11 $X11_EXTRA_LIBS $DL_LIBS $MATH_LIBS $LIBS" AC_TRY_LINK( , [Tk_NameOfFont()], , [TK_LIB=_searching]); if test "X$TK_LIB" = X_searching ; then AC_MSG_RESULT(no) else AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) fi LIBS=$asc_libs_orig fi |
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I suggest checking the tickle config blocks under autotools against those in the unixac213 configure.in for updates you may want to port into the autotools version. But those won't solve the problem here. Looks like the problem here is windows/mingw/msys specific. Our configure at cmu, from which autotools at least started, was never extended to cygwin, mingw, etc. Typically one end's up with what may as well be a complete separate configure script for windows to deal with cygwinisms (and probably mingw) in autoconf. Our windows build was almost always through nmake or visual studio. |
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I think this works now. In any case it works on the SCons build so I'm happy. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2005-12-22 11:47 | john | New Issue | |
| 2005-12-22 11:48 | john | Category | build-linux => build-windows |
| 2005-12-22 11:50 | john | Note Added: 0000163 | |
| 2005-12-22 11:51 | john | Summary | autotools build doesn't detect ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.3 under MinGW/MSYS => ./configure doesn't detect ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.3 under MinGW/MSYS |
| 2005-12-23 08:16 | ben | Note Added: 0000178 | |
| 2005-12-23 08:18 | ben | Note Added: 0000179 | |
| 2005-12-23 09:02 | john | Note Added: 0000184 | |
| 2005-12-23 11:12 | ben | Note Added: 0000195 | |
| 2006-01-04 13:08 | john | Relationship added | related to 0000199 |
| 2006-02-07 13:17 | john | Target release | => 1.0 |
| 2006-02-07 13:22 | john | Target release | 1.0 => 0.9.6 |
| 2006-05-10 02:50 | john | Note Added: 0000329 | |
| 2006-05-10 02:50 | john | Status | new => assigned |
| 2006-05-10 02:50 | john | Assigned To | => john |
| 2006-05-10 03:49 | john | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2006-05-10 03:49 | john | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2006-06-22 07:27 | john | Fixed in Version | => 0.9.6 |
| 2008-02-10 13:03 | john | Status | resolved => closed |
