MSYS2 has no jimtcl lib package (was: Building openOCD after patch [8383])

[Tomas V. <to...@us...>]

On 26/06/2025 16:13, Ivan Kryvosheia wrote:
> Hi Tomas!
> I have problem building openOCD project after this patch with a change 
> to jimctl
> https://review.openocd.org/c/openocd/+/8383
>
> Before I just used
> ./bootstrap
> git submodule init
> git submodule update
> ./configure
> make -j8
>
> and it worked
> but now I constantly have error with jimtcl
> "checking for jimtcl >= 0.79... no
> checking for jim.h... no"
>
> Am I supposed to apply another steps?
>
> PS: windows, msys2
>
> Thank you a lot!
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan Kryvosheia

The fast workaround is easy - ensure jimtcl source is checked-out in 
jimtcl directory and
./configure --enable-internal-jimtcl

However in future we need to persuade MSYS2 project guys to add a jimtcl 
lib package.
I searched pull requests and issues in 
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages
and didn't found anything relevant.

Any volunteer to describe the issue and possibly create and submit PR?

Tomas