[Starkit] Preview: kitgen builds Tclkit Lite

[Brian Theado]

On 11/19/06, Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw at equi4.com> wrote:
> It's all very lightweight (read: maintainable).  I don't have access
> to a mingw build setup right now, but I hope that kitgen can be
> tweaked to work there as well.

I made some tweaks that got me pretty far.  I'm currently stuck on the
kit-cli linking stage. All Tcl library calls in the kit C files
(kitInit.c, pwb.c, etc.) are showing up as undefined references.  For
some reason, the .o files have references to things like
'_imp__Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj' whereas 'nm libtcl84s.a' shows symbols
like '_Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj '.

Anyone with mingw experience have any ideas?

Here are my steps:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at equi4.com:/home/cvs co -d kitgen tclkit/kitgen

If you don't have it, download and extract msys_mingw 0.8 from
http://tcl.sourceforge.net

Download wget from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

Run msys.bat to get a bash shell

cd to wherever kitgen was checked out

edit makefile.include:
  - replace all instances of unix with win (the mingw configure scripts for
    Tcl and Tk are in the win directory)
  - remove 'install-private-headers' from the Tcl make line (no such rule
    in win/Makefile)
  - replace 'rsync -a' with 'cp -a'
  - replace 'libvfs1*.a' --> 'vfs1*.a' and 'libvlerqtcl4*.a' --> 'vlerqtcl4*.a'

create a symlink for gcc.exe named cc.exe (the zlib build calls cc
instead of gcc or $CC):
  ln /mingw/bin/gcc.exe /mingw/bin/cc.exe

make 8.4-cvs
  ==> 'wget -O -' doesn't seem to work properly and the 'tar x' fails

Fix wget zlib error:
  rm -R 8.4-cvs/zlib-1.2.3
  wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
  tar xfvz zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
  mv zlib-1.2.3 8.4-cvs/zlib

mv 8.4-cvs 8.4

make small
  ==> Linking step in kit-cli target fails with a bunch of undefined
reference errors.