running appli without swarm

[Osamu Iida]

Dear all,

I have trouble running applications without swarm
on Windows 95/98.

What I did is the following.

First, I modified a Makefile for an application made with
Swarm 1.3.1. That is, I added "SWARMHOME=/Swarm-1.4.1"
to the top of the Makefile. Then I compiled the application
with Swarm 1.4.1.

Second, referring to the message you find at the following
URL:

http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/archive/list-archive.9804/0045.html

I gathered the following files:

cygwin1.dll
cygtcl80.dll
cygtk80.dll
init.tcl
word.tcl 
button.tcl
entry.tcl
listbox.tcl
menu.tcl
scale.tcl
scrlbar.tcl
text.tcl
tk.tcl
bltGraph.tcl

Because there was not a file named cygwinb19.dll
nor cygwinb20.dll, I included cygwin1.dll instead.

I did not make a patch mentioned in that message
because I have heard Swarm 1.4.1 did not require it.

Third, I gave a person who did not have swarm on his
Windows 95/98 (I did not know which he used) both the exe
file and the files above.

He left all files I gave into one folder and tried to
run the exe file from MS-DOS prompt, but he got an error
message "error: TkExtra (instance)".

I figured out that that error message appeared when
one did not have the graphical user interface, but
I do not know why he got such an error message.

One thing I can guess is that I gave him some wrong files.

I appreciate if anyone would tell me what I did wrong.

Best regard,

Osamu Iida
Graduate Student
Political Science, UCLA


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