Re: [MACTCL] problem building snack

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

This sounds as if you are mixing header files between 8.4 and 8.3 versions
of tcl,tk.  Make sure you're using only 8.4's headers.

-- Vince

<http://www.santafe.edu/~vince>


On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:

>
> tcl.h has the following macros (around line 270):
> #ifdef USE_NON_CONST
> #   ifdef USE_COMPAT_CONST
> #      error define at most one of USE_NON_CONST and USE_COMPAT_CONST
> #   endif
> #   define CONST84
> #   define CONST84_RETURN
> #else
> #   ifdef USE_COMPAT_CONST
> #      define CONST84
> #      define CONST84_RETURN CONST
> #   else
> #      define CONST84 CONST
> #      define CONST84_RETURN CONST
> #   endif
> #endif
>
> Maybe should you try to play around with one of them: #define
> USE_NON_CONST or #define USE_COMPAT_CONST
>
> I don't have the source code of snack to try myself.
>
> Just a guess,
>
> Bernard
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have been running into a problem trying to build snack.  I am using
> > the following:
> > OSX 10.2.3
> > Tcl/Tk 8.4.1 (tried with and without BI installed)
> >
> > I downloaded Snack 2.2 and did the following:
> > cd unix
> > ./configure --with-tcl=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework
> > --with-tk=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework
> > changed the following lines in the Makefile:
> > TCL_INCPATH =  /Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Version/8.4/Headers
> > TK_INCPATH  = /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Version/8.4/Headers
> > make
> >
> > It builds for a while then I get a bunch of the following errors each
> > ref a different line #:
> > /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Headers/tkDecls.h:237:
> > illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `CONST84_RETURN'
> > followed by a whole host of other errors.
> >
> > I edited tkDecls.h and added the ';' to each of the CONST84_RETURN
> > instances but it didn't help as when I tried make again
> >
> > Followed by these errors each ref a different line #:
> > /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Headers/tkDecls.h:986:
> > undefined type, found `CONST84_RETURN'
> > /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Headers/tkDecls.h:986:
> > illegal member declaration, missing name, found `char'
> > and some other errors such as ../generic/snack.c:255: request for
> > member `tk_CreateItemType' in something not a structure or union
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas as to why it does not build.   I have put the
> > full output of the make up at:  http://twc-inc.net/make.txt
> >
> > Thanks for any help or suggestions,
> > Dana
> >
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