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

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 21/12/2000 09:44, Hugo Korwaser wrote:

>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.

Yes, definitely. I will post something about that next year.

Thanks for the tips. I would nevertheless strongly advise anyone to use the 
same tool to
build both VTK, Tcl/Tk, Python, Itcl, etc. You will definitely avoid some 
nasty import lib and defs problems (and the usual TkWinChildProc stuff). 
Thus, as I have not heard about anyone having built VTK with cygwin, I 
would also advise anyone to use MSVC++ or BC++ to build Tcl/Tk :)

Or maybe were you just referring to the ./configure part of the install, 
which requires Cygwin ? OK, I admit I haven't tried to link a 
MSVC++-compiled VTK with a Cygwin/Gcc-compiled Itcl/Tk, I would rather 
avoid put my finger in that mess :)

I had problems with Tcl 8.3.1 / Tcl 3.1.0, but I do not remember how to 
reproduce them :( Please, try to check the Itcl demo and see if everything 
(every widget) is working right. Or maybe there was a compatibility pb with 
different packages (I'm using BLT, Img, BWidget, Itcl, Itk simultaneously). 
As I needed the 8.3.1 Postscript photo support, I also had to patch 8.3.0 
with the relevant 8.3.1 photo part. Furthermore, I also patched 
generic/tclMain.c to enable a better interactive Tcl support in Emacs :)

I had no problem building Itcl 3.1.0 with nmake, you just have to edit a 
couple of makefile. I'll have a look at my notes ASAP and post something. 
regarding 3.2.