[Xcircuit-dev] XCircuit and Cygwin status

[R. Timothy Edwards]

At the end of last week, I made an attempt to compile xcircuit under
Cygwin as the Tcl interpreter extension.  I quickly discovered a major
snag---the Tk graphics package in Cygwin is compiled with native
Windows graphics API, not with X11.  At the moment, getting XCircuit
to run as a Tcl extension requires re-compiling Tk to use X11
graphics, not WIN32API.  This is probably a more painful route than
most people want to go, particularly as the benefits of the Tcl
interface are minimal.  I may try to rework the graphics sometime to
allow me to write a WIN32 interface.  For now, though, don't
configure for compilation with "--with-tcl" if you're using Cygwin.

					Regards,
					Tim


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