Re: [MACTCL] Problems compiling Tcl/Tk 8.3.3

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

Bo,

sorry for the delay

At 13:58 +0100 on 1/6/01, Bo Rasmusson wrote:

>I have downloaded the Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 version for Macintosh and tried to
>compile it on Mac OS X.

I have actually never tried that myself, I built the 8.3.3 distribution on 9.1

>  Since I managed to compile the 8.3.2p1 version
>(on Mac OS 9) for ca. 2 month ago I did not need to do so much work to
>compile this newer version, i.e. all changes to CodeWarrior, Universal
>Interfaces, Morefiles etc where allready made.
>But unfortunatly I got an error while compiling the "Tk Release build"
>target in the TkShells.pi project:
>
>"An unknown error occured when post-linking target "Drag & Drop Tclets"
>for project "TkShells.pi"."
>
>, which means that it did not manage to post link the code for the "Drag
>
>& Drop Tclets". Except for this error everything compiled great.
>Anyone having any clue of what this can be?

The post-linker for this target is set to "Output Flags Post Linker", 
this is used to set the "custom icon bit" of the executable, which 
shows the custom icon in the resources of the "Drag & Drop Tclets" 
app. This is purely cosmetic and if the post-link fails no loss of 
functionality will result. (you should be able to set the custom icon 
bit manually with FileTyper, ResEdit, Resorcerer or somesuch...)

As to the reason for the error, I suspect that the Metrowerks "Output 
Flags Post Linker" is buggy on OSX, as is much of CW 6.2 ...

Cheers,

Daniel
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