RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: axiom porting

[Page, Bill]

Thanks Mike,

Your patches got me much further than before. Then I added

  TK_LIB_SPEC=-l tk84
  TCL_LIB_SPEC=-i tcl84

to makedefs and now the build appears to completes normally.
I am not sure where TK_LIB_SPEC and TCL_LIB_SPEC would normally
be set.

And it seems to be at least partly working!

$ saved_gcl
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.6.7 CLtL1    May  3 2005 19:47:30
Source License: LGPL(gcl,gmp), GPL(unexec,bfd)
Binary License:  GPL due to GPL'ed components: (UNEXEC)
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Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.

>(in-package 'tk)

#<"TK" package>

TK>(tkconnect)

Loading C:/msys/1.0/home/bpage/axiom--windows--1/gcl/gcl-tk/tkl.o
start address -T 10273000 Finished loading
C:/msys/1.0/home/bpage/axiom--windows--1/gcl/gcl-tk/tkl.o

"C:/msys/1.0/home/bpage/axiom--windows--1/gcl/gcl-tk/gcltksrv 127.0.0.1 5016
4020 :0 "
C:\msys\1.0\home\bpage\axiom--windows--1\gcl\unixport>set
GCL_TK_DIR=c:/cvs/gcl/gcl-tk 

C:\msys\1.0\home\bpage\axiom--windows--1\gcl\unixport>set
TCL_LIBRARY=c:/lang/tcl/lib/tcl8.3 

C:\msys\1.0\home\bpage\axiom--windows--1\gcl\unixport>set
TK_LIBRARY=c:/lang/tcl/lib/tcl8.3 

C:\msys\1.0\home\bpage\axiom--windows--1\gcl\unixport>start
c:/cvs/gcl/gcl-tk/gcltkaux 127.0.0.1 5016 4020 

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Then I get a pop-up box from Windows saying:

"Windows cannot find 'c:/cvs/gcl/gcl-tk/gcltkaux'. Make sure you typed
the name correctly ... blah, blah "

Notice that the path separators are not compatible with windows.
Maybe that's a clue.

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I have to depart for the evening and get some rest (and a little
magic fairy dust :). But I will let you know if I make any more
progress tomorrow.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Bill Page.