| Comments on building tcl/tk for AMD64 with the MS SDK compiler | |
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| I did have to build tcl/tk manually. | |
| First, I had to build the nmakehlp.exe helper utility manually by executing | |
| cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib | |
| in both the tcl8.4.12\win and tk8.4.12\win directories. | |
| Second, the AMD64 compiler refuses to compile the file | |
| tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c because it insists on using intrinsics | |
| for the 'ceil' and 'floor' functions: | |
| ..\generic\tclExecute.c(394) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant | |
| ..\generic\tclExecute.c(398) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant | |
| I did comment out these lines; an alternative would have been to use | |
| the /Oi- compiler flag to disable the intrinsic functions. | |
| The commands then used were these: | |
| svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.12 | |
| cd tcl8.4.12\win | |
| REM | |
| echo patch the tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c file | |
| pause | |
| REM | |
| cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib | |
| nmake -f makefile.vc MACHINE=AMD64 | |
| nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install | |
| cd ..\.. | |
| svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.12 | |
| cd tk8.4.12\win | |
| cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib | |
| nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 MACHINE=AMD64 | |
| nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install | |
| cd ..\.. |