linking to tk84.lib fails

OriginalBugID: 5849 Bug
Version: 8.4a1
SubmitDate: '2000-06-07'
LastModified: '2000-07-28'
Severity: CRIT
Status: Released
Submitter: techsupp
ChangedBy: shawn
RelatedBugIDs: 6062
OS: Windows 95
FixedDate: '2000-07-28'
ClosedDate: '2000-07-28'

Name:
Don Porter

Comments:
The disk is not full.

cl == Microsoft(R) 32-Bit Optimizing Compiler Version 11.00.7022 for
80x86

The same sequence of operation succeeds with Tcl/Tk 8.3.1.

ReproducibleScript:
/* FILE: test.c
*/
#include <tcl.h>
#include <tk.h>

int
Tcl_AppInit(Tcl_Interp *interp)
{
if (Tcl_Init(interp) != TCL_OK) {
return TCL_ERROR;
}
if (Tk_Init(interp) != TCL_OK) {
return TCL_ERROR;
}
Tcl_StaticPackage(interp, "Tk", Tk_Init, Tk_SafeInit);

return TCL_OK;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
// Turn over control to the Tk library.
Tk_Main(argc, argv, Tcl_AppInit);

// Make picky compilers happy.
return 0;
}

ObservedBehavior:
C:> cl /nologo /c /IC:/PROGRA~1/TCL/include /Fotest.obj test.c
test.c

C:> link /nologo test.obj C:/PROGRA~1/TCL/lib/tk84.lib C:/PROGRA~1/TCL/lib/tcl84.lib /OUT:test.exe
C:/PROGRA~1/TCL/lib/tk84.lib: fatal error LNK1106: invalid file or disk full: cannot seek to 0x393f800d

DesiredBehavior:
I should be able to statically link
my C apps to tk84.lib.

Dave Gravereaux suggests that this is because the distribution was built with VC 6.0, which produces library files that are incompatible with VC 5.0.
We should either use VC 5.0 to build our distribution, or specify "/compat50lib" on the link line, so that the binaries produced are VC 5.0 compatible.

- eric

-- 06/19/2000 ericm

Is a duplicate of 6062
-- 07/28/2000 shawn