[Starkit] Re: dqkit

[Tom Krehbiel]

Hafer,

I haven't been following this thread very closely, but it seems 
strange to me that your trying to use both cygwin and mingw. When 
  I ask what to use on tkchat they recommended mingw.

Tom K.

> Again thanks for the help....
> 
> Ok here is what I have done in preperation for creating a dqkit-custom.exe
> 
> 1) I have downloaded Cygwin and installed it to C:/Cygwin
> 1.1) I tried to "overwrite bin/bash.exe as bin/sh.exe". 
> However, a sh.exe file was already in the directory.  Is that right? 
> 
> 2) I downloaded the dq mingw snapshot (and unzipped it)from sourceforge.
> 2.1) Placed it in C:/mingw Is the location correct?
> 
> 3) I downloaded the 15 Meg dqkit-sources-0.2.tar.gz file (unzipped it) 
> from sourceforge and placed it in C:/dkkit.
> 3.1) Is the location correct?
> 
> 4) Activetcl 8.4.5.0 was already installed on the machine.
> 
> 
> 
> I opened a tcl wish and did the following to attempt to create a 
> dqkit-custom.exe:
> 
> 1) cd C:/dqkit
> 2) tclsh gen/buildkit build -tk -blt -resfile=current -binary=custom
> ( I am guessing this will build a kit with tk and blt only, right?)
> 
> and got the following:
> 
> Beginning compilation steps: options, setupdirs, tcl, mk, tk, itcl, blt, res,
> zlib, vfs, link, finalize.
> 
> [ 1/12] options
> 
> [ 2/12] setupdirs
> 
> [ 3/12] tcl
>     sh autoconf
> couldn't execute "sh": no such file or directory
>     while executing
> "exec >@file88a218 2>@file88a218 sh autoconf"
>     ("eval" body line 1)
>     invoked from within
> "eval [concat [list exec >@$fh 2>@$fh] $cmd]"
>     (procedure "out::oexec" line 5)
>     invoked from within
> "out::oexec {sh autoconf}"
>     (procedure "dirconfigure" line 13)
>     invoked from within
> "dirconfigure 1 1 C:/dqkit/src/tcl-8.4.5/win C:/dqkit/build/AUSPC056/tcl ...    
> ...
> ...
> yada yada yada ...
> 
> I am certain I have done something very wrong.  But what? I think I have not 
> placed all of the files into the correct locations or something along those 
> lines.  Can anyone inform me of my mistake?  Again I hate to sound so helpless 
> here but I tend to learn by experience not by reading lol.
> 
> One final thing.  
> I noticed that in the directory C:/dqkit/src/res there is a dqe.ico file.  
> Can I replace that file with my own so that it appears in the 
> final dqkit-custom.exe?
> 
> Thanks again.