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

[Hugo Korwaser]

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.

Regards

Hugo

Sebastien BARRE wrote:

> At 20/12/2000 19:05, David J. Netherway wrote:
> 
>> Are these currently the latest versions that work?
>> 
>> I am currently using the binary releases tcl8.2.3 and itcl31-82 for 
>> winNT.  I could not find a
>> later binary release for itcl. I am looking to upgrade to tcl8.3.x.
> 
> 
> I'm using 8.3.0 + Itcl 3.1
> It works. I had problems with versions > 8.3.0, thus I advise you to 
> stick to 8.3.0. I haven't upgraded to Itcl 3.2 yet.
> 
> 
> 
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