Hello Tomas,
Is there anyone that managed to build Xcuircuit for Windows lately?
I managed to build a tcl version that starts...
- Using version git repository download of 3.7 (Sat Mar 24 10:05:55 2012
-0400)
- Windows SDK 7.1, 64bit debug mode
- Active Tcl/Tk8.5
- MinGW make
- Based on the Makefile.win32
- Call to low-level IO functions needed to be adapted to windows. E.g
"open" -> "_open" ...
- Adapted to windows process functions: "fork" -> "_spawn"
- Use of external "convert" tool -> "gm convert" (Graphics Magick).
Ok, xcuircuit starts but is unstable. So apart from the previous
question: Is is possible to run in debug mode, somehow to try to figure
out where it crashes?
Any advice/suggestion is appreciated. I found the site:
"http://www.oocities.org/sw286000/#download"; but can not find any source
or build information. I can only read that "Win32 support has now been
integrated into the main source tree". But the Makefile.win32 lacks some
information and my guess is that there has been some additions/changes
since then.
If any one interested I can supply a patch of my work. I just need to
figure out the propper git command :)
Yes, I am interested. I think you have made it much further along this
path than anybody has ever attempted. The original native-Windows API
graphics version was compiled without the Tcl/Tk support, and with a
Microsoft compiler instead of mingw, so what you are attempting has not
been done before. It should work in theory, but I'm not surprised that
it is unstable.
I have not tried using the mingw compile before. If you can give me a
few pointers on your method, I can duplicate it here, and I should be
able to track down the bugs and fix them. Also, I would like to write
up the mingw-based compile instructions on the xcircuit website.
Please send me what you have. The "git" system isn't set up for
remote pushes, but I can add you to the access list. Or you can just
send me a patch file.
Regards,
Tim
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