Static Libraries on Windows (Tcl 8.2)

[Ben Wimpory]

I am having some problems trying to compile the Tcl/Tk v8.2.0 static
libraries on windows. If anyone could lend assistance is would be
greatly appreciated.

Here's what I am doing:

Under the BASH shell I cannot get the "bash configure --disable-shared"
command to get pass testing the object suffix. What's more strange is
that if I run the same command in a DOS shell, the makefile gets
created, although one line of the bash configure output was:

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... Bad command or filename
no

Then it completes and creates the Makefile okay. I have then added the
VPATH variable. Running this makefile with "make -f Makefile" in the
DOS shell produces different results from running in the BASH shell:

Under DOS shell:

The makefile tries to compile each C file into an object file, and
after each compile line the error: "Bad command or filename" keeps
occuring. Then when it eventually tries to compile the static library
it falls over since none of the object files have been created. I
can't help but think that this problem may be related to the earlier
problem when creating the Makefile, i.e. that ${MAKE} line.

cl -help gives me all the C/C++ compiler options - so my cl.exe is
pathed okay.

Any ideas what this could be?

Under BASH shell:

The first compile line causes an error: Command Line error: D2030
INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR in D:/......../cl.exe. Please call Technical
Support, etc, etc. I presume from this that you are NOT supposed to
run the make file from the BASH shell.

I am using MSVC 6.0 Enterprise Edition. The makefile does not run with
NMAKE in VC++ itself.

Thanks for any help,

--Ben

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Ben Wimpory
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