[vtkusers] VTK + Tcl 8.3.0 + Itcl 3.1.0 (NT)

[Hugo Korwaser]

Further to my previous e-mail.

There are differences in building tcl/tk8.3.2 on Windows NT ( I assume 
this will happen with W95/W98 etc.) between using Microsoft nmake and 
using the tea/cygwin approach.
It manifests it self with tcl in that with nmake the tcltest package is 
not installed. It manifests itself with tk in that the fix that I 
mentioned in my previous e-mail causes a problem with duplicate symbols. 
In the tea build the tk resource files are concatinated into one. My fix 
will then bring in the cursors et al. a 2nd time. From this I infer that 
the tea method is the way to install.

My quick guide to building tcl8.3.2/tk8.3.2/itcl3.2 using tea on NT 
assuming cygwin 1.0x is already installed. The commands should be 
entered in a cygwin bash shell window.

  1 - Build tcl
      a - create a build directory
          mkdir build
      b - change directory to build directory
          cd build
      c - configure using script in tcl8.3.2/win
      <path to tcl8.3.2/win/configure> --prefix=<path of where to \
      install> --enable-threads
          the prefix and the enable threads parameters are optional
      d - compile and link
          make
      e - install
          make install
  2 - Build tk
      a - create a build directory
      mkdir build
      b - change directory to build directory
      cd build
      c - configure using script in tk8.3.2/win
      <path to tk8.3.2/win/configure> --prefix=<path of where to install>
      --with-tcl=<pathname to where tcl was built> --enable-threads
          the prefix is optional and the enable threads parameters is
          required if tcl compiled with it.
      d - compile and link
          make
      e - install
          make install
  3 - Build itcl
      a - create a build directory
          mkdir <build>
      b - change directory to build directory
          cd <build>
      c - configure using script in itcl3.2
      <path to tcl/win/configure> --prefix=<path of where to install>
      --with-tcl=<pathname to where tcl was built>
      --with-tk=<pathname to where tk was built> --enable-threads
          the prefix is optional and the enable threads parameters is
          required if tcl compiled with it.
      d - compile and link
          make
      e - install
          make install

Hope this is of some use.

Regards

Hugo

Hugo Korwaser wrote:

> Hi Sebastein and David,
> I have got vtk3.2beta to work with tcl/tk8.3.2 on NT4.0sp4 with VC++sp4. 
> The test examples also work using itkwish3.2.
> 
> I did have a problem with tk in that the cursor definitions were not 
> compiled into the tk83 dll. This problem can be solved by editing 
> tk8.3.2/win/res/tk.res and adding the line
> 
> #include "tk_base.rc"
> 
> at the end of the file.
> Rerunning the make should cause the resource file to be recompiled and 
> the dll rebuilt.
> 
> I must say I struggled a bit with building itcl3.2 in that I didn't read 
> the readme file, assumed that the makefile.vc's were the things to use. 
> I then came across the reference to tea. There is an explanation on the 
> scriptics site, http://dev.scriptics.com/doc/tea/windows.html, that 
> provides the promised information. From a quick read I think that if you 
> do download the current version of cygwin some of the steps are 
> redundant or need modification.
> 1 - is required
> 2 - the installation is done by setup (cygwin's own version) which both 
> transfers the distribution and installs.
> 3 - you can use an icon intstalled on your desktop or 
> start>programs->cygnus solutions
> 4 - this is done by the current version
> 5 - if you use vcvars.bat to setup the enviroment variables for visual 
> c++ to be run in a dos box you must call then from cygwin.bat so that 
> they are available from bash.
> 6 & 7 this can be done when downloading and installing rather than 
> seperatly.
> 8 9 & 10 depends on what you are doing.
>