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The official Tcl has had the Cygwin build support removed, because it was
in need of someone to maintain it, and no one came forward. Users looking
for the most simple way to build Tcl/Tk under Windows should take a look at
[Building Tcl/Tk with Mingw].

Recently trying out the latest [CVS] version of tcl 8.5, I found the standard distr. 
doesn't allow a [cygwin] build. That in itself is not disastrous, but I at least would 
like to use my installed [cygwin] env to build. That should be possible with [mingw], 
which however is already present in the cygwin distr., usually.

The main trick was suggested by [GPS], to make cygwin not use its normal gcc,
but in fact the 9as ''(what?)'' I used before: -mno-cygwin option (under bash):

 export CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
 ./configure
 make

A comment on the outcome: I wanted to use the resulting tclsh without installing, which is problematic because it looks for a valid init.tcl . It appears that a '''make shell'''
or '''make runtest''' is possible.

 make test

works normally.


'''See also'''
   * [cygwin]
   * [Building Tcl and Tk with Cygwin]
   * [MinGW] gcc & binutils for MSYS
   * [MSYS] a fork of cygwin

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