1 Comments on building tcl/tk for AMD64 with the MS SDK compiler

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     4 I did have to build tcl/tk manually.

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     6 First, I had to build the nmakehlp.exe helper utility manually by executing

     7    cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib

     8 in both the tcl8.4.12\win and tk8.4.12\win directories.

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    10 Second, the AMD64 compiler refuses to compile the file

    11 tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c because it insists on using intrinsics

    12 for the 'ceil' and 'floor' functions:

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    14   ..\generic\tclExecute.c(394) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant

    15   ..\generic\tclExecute.c(398) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant

    16 

    17 I did comment out these lines; an alternative would have been to use

    18 the /Oi- compiler flag to disable the intrinsic functions.

    19 The commands then used were these:

    20 

    21    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.12

    22    cd tcl8.4.12\win

    23    REM

    24    echo patch the tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c file

    25    pause 

    26    REM

    27    cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib

    28    nmake -f makefile.vc MACHINE=AMD64

    29    nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install

    30    cd ..\..

    31    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.12

    32    cd tk8.4.12\win

    33    cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib

    34    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 MACHINE=AMD64

    35    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install

    36    cd ..\..