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.
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.
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:
14 ..\generic\tclExecute.c(394) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant
15 ..\generic\tclExecute.c(398) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant
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:
21 svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.12
24 echo patch the tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c file
27 cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib
28 nmake -f makefile.vc MACHINE=AMD64
29 nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install
31 svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.12
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