Re: Swarm 1.1 Available

[Doug Donalson;]

Here are the first Win95 comments.  I know most of you are having
fun at SwarmFest, so a reply may take a bit.

Note (Marcus) that I still need to comment out those few lines
of code in schedule.m to get my schedules to work.  This means
I can't use the binaries.  (How hard would it be to make a second
binary with that code commented out?  He asks hopefully.)

I got the Cygnus software (a 1 hr+ download), it installed fine.
It does not come with BLT8.0.  I got blt8.0 from the swarm site
and came to my first problem(s).  One is the makefile for it is
written for Visual C++ nmake and needs MAJOR mods and more
expertiese than I have to convert.  Also, blt wants a bunch of
files not supplied by the Cygnus install.  Two examples are 
tcl8.0.dll and tk8.0.dll.

I next tried the .exe (binary) form of tcl/tk8.0 from the ftp site.  That
also installed well and provided the .dll files.  It didn't solve
my makefile prob but I went and got a $40 book that provides
a cut down version of visual C++ and installed that.  The compile
started to run with nmake!

I then discovered that the binary install of tk/tcl still didn't
provide all the files that blt wanted.  Two examples are tkWinInt.h
and tclInt.h.  At that point I got the source versions and tried to install
them.  I got a link error LNK1561: entry point must be defined.  Yah,
right, I understand exactly what that means and how to fix it.

Anyone got a better way to do this?

Cheers,

   Doug Donalson

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