[Starkit] Re: Trouble compiling tclkit on windows

[Greg Brigley]

Thanks for replying, Tacvek.

I forgot to mention that I did do "copy /B msvc6\kit.exe +
tars\runtime.kit mytclkit.exe".  It was the resulting "mytclkit.exe"
that was producing that log message I quoted.

However, I've just found my mistake, thanks to your reply.  It turns
out that I had created a directory called "tar" instead of "tars".  It
seems that "copy /B a + b c" doesn't complain if b is missing, but
instead falls back to "copy a c".

Now mytclkit.exe works just fine.

Greg

On 2/16/06, Tacvek <unknown_kev_cat at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Greg, I'm replying directly to you because something blocks all of the mail
> I send to the mailing list.
> [I think it is my hotmail address].
> If you find this useful, please feel free to forward it to the list so that
> others can read it.
>
> >creating tclmytclkit.exe from C:/Documents and
> >Settings/admin/Desktop/tclkit-compile/mytclkit.exe
> >loading static packages
> >sourcing vfs code
> >There was an error couldn't read file
> >"kitsh.vfs/lib/vfs/vfsUtils.tcl": no such file or directory
> >couldn't read file "kitsh.vfs/lib/vfs/vfsUtils.tcl": no such file or
> >directory
> >    while executing
> >"source kitsh.vfs/lib/vfs/vfsUtils.tcl"
>
> That is good. That is what it should do. :D
> You have only created kit.exe so far. You run that to build the tclkit.exe
>
> However it is looking for a file that it cannot find.
> So instead of running the program to do that, you can do the equivlent
> manually:
>
> "copy /B msvc6\kit.exe + tars\runtime.kit mytclkit.exe"
>
>
>
>
>
> >What am I doing wrong?  Am I better off using mingw/msys instead?
>
> Well that should work. I once created a one-of-a-kind windows version using
> cygwin.
> It was windows native (did not use any cygwin dlls) but supported both the
> command line
> AND tk. Now it was intended for use at a command line, because doing
> otherwise would cause a
> console window to pop up when it is started that would stay until the
> program ends,
> which would be undesireable for a tk program.
>
>