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Re: Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin


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


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