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Re: Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- To: "E. Weddington" <ericw at evcohs dot com>
- Cc: "insight at sources dot redhat dot com" <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:56:14 -0700
- Subject: Re: Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin
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On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:47, E. Weddington wrote:
> BTW, my build just finished, and yes your patch works! Thanks!
Excellent.
> I knew that insight->gdb->cygwin, but is that the only dependency? I'm sorry, I
> don't know enough about the architecture of Insight.
>
> In other words, if gdb could be built without cygwin, then is it true that
> insight could be built without cygwin?
Yes, that's correct (if we used mingw versions of tcl et al).
> Doing a cygcheck on the the insight executable, I get tcl84.dll depending on
> cygwin1.dll. I would have thought that this implies that insight, being the
> tcl/tk part, is directly dependent upon cygwin as well.
Yes, but only because the tcl we use is cygwin-based. If gdb changed, we
could use a mingw version of tcl.
Keith