Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:57:43 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: CV cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: FileRunner under cygwin - simple compilation fails. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, CV wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > > Did you check whether tcl.h gets included? If it is, it could be a bug in > > ext.c. > > I ran gcc -E as you suggested but was not sure how to interpret > the results. Looking at it a bit more closely I think it is clear > that tcl.h _does_ get included: > > After running the command "gcc -E ext.c -o ext.pre" and then > comparing ext.pre with tcl.h I think I can identify some of > the included bits, eg. the following: > [snip] You could also just look at the '# line' lines, e.g., '# 159 "/usr/include/tcl.h" 3 4' The most interesting thing is whether Tcl_CreateCommand is declared, and whether its signature corresponds to its usage in ext.c. > > > It does seem to behave funny, refusing to enter certain directories, > > > but that I'll have to investigate separately. > > > > Perhaps related to the above warnings? > > Don't know, but actually it only refuses to enter the > C:/cygwin/cygdrive directory, where the windows disks > are mounted. It is ok everywhere else. Ha. /cygdrive is a virtual directory, intended to access Windows disks from inside Cygwin, not vice versa. Why go to C:/cygwin/cygdrive/c/, when you can simply go to C:/? > [snip] > I am a little surprised that FileRunner is working with > C:/ as its root directory. I would have preferred to have > it use the cygwin / root, and then access windows disks > over /cygdrive/c etc. but that's a minor point and it > still sort of works: "cd /" takes you to C:/cygwin. > > Another funny thing is that cygwin symlinks come up > as filename.lnk, but they still seem to work as > expected when you click on them. Both of the above seem to indicate that the Tcl library you're using is probably a Windows native Tcl of some sort... I may be totally off, though, since I don't know squat about Tcl. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/