Re: Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin

["E. Weddington" <ericw at evcohs dot com>]

On 9 Jul 2004 at 13:56, Keith Seitz wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:47, E. Weddington wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Ok.... Now I'm confused.

If I go and get just the gdb package, it doesn't seem (to me anyway) to require 
tcl. If I get the insight package, then it requires tcl.

So why can't insight go ahead and use a mingw version of tcl, even when gdb 
still requires cygwin? I was under the assumption that the tcl/tk part of it 
insight was just for the GUI, which was separate, somehow, from the underlying 
gdb program. But I could be real wrong about this, as everything seems to get 
bundled into one executable and a couple of dlls for tcl and tk.

(I would bet that the answer has something to do with the architecture of 
insight that I don't know about.)

Thanks for taking the time to answer.
Eric