[Starkit] Preview: kitgen builds Tclkit Lite

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

Brian Theado wrote:

> 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 '.

Sounds like lib/dll trouble.  Could it be that the last compile/build  
step (of kitInit.c etc) needs a -DSTATIC_BUILD?  If that's not it,  
I'd consider looking at EXTERN and things like __declspec.  You might  
also be able to glean some settings from the tcl make which builds a  
static tclsh as one of the first kitgen steps.

(FWIW, I had some trouble with a threaded X11 build on Mac, no doubt  
that last link step is still a bit too simplistic)

> Here are my steps:
[...]

Wow.  Once it all works, it'd be great to get all this information  
linked-from or included-in the kitgen docs.

<snip>

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

Hm.  Perhaps because Win32 pipes assume that text-mode data passes  
through?

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

Great.  Almost there!

-jcw