[SOLVED]: Insight 64bit windows version

[Roland Schwingel <roland at onevision dot com>]

Hi...

Am 07.03.2012 17:01, schrieb Roland Schwingel:
> Hi...
>
> Has anyone already tried that too? Any experiences?
>
> Since a few days I am trying to build an insight (based on gdb 7,4) 
> for windows 64bit using mingw-w64 compilers.
> I got already quite far, but not far enough.
>
> I got a big problem in the beginning with the intree tcl/tk/itcl/itk 
> 8.4 based versions. They are IMHO way to old to work on 64bit windows. 
> I looked at tcl 8.5 which is already way better in regard of win64bit 
> but still not as good as win64 friendly as tcl/tk 8.6beta.
>
> So I updated my system to the current tcl/tk 8.6 source from the 
> tcl/tk repos. When running tk's 64bit wish on windows 7 64 I can run 
> the tk supplied tests just fine. I upgraded itcl/itk also to the most 
> recent versions (4.0beta) to match the tcl/tk versions. I am using 
> iwidgets 4.0.2.
>
> I also had to give some love to libgui in regard of windows 64bit. It 
> hasn't got any attention for around a decade so it just refused to 
> build for win64.
>
> So I can link insight now. For regressions reasons I am also compiling 
> insight for windows 32 bit and linux 32 bit from the very same source 
> with the very same compilers and the very same settings. On all 
> platforms I do get the very same result. Insight bails out with some 
> tcl errors on startup. I am just starting out to learn tcl to get 
> insight going but maybe someone can give me a hint whats going wrong 
> here. My tcl knowledge is still VERY MUCH limited.
 [....]

After a sleepless night and a bunch of searching up and down the 
internet I finally have a working
version of a native 64bit windows insight! Hooray!

itcl/itk4 do not work very well at present. So I made myself a chimera 
version of itcl 3.4.1/itk 3.3 that (appears to) work fine with tcl/tk 8.6.

And voila: Insight starts up and appears to work!

Roland