[Richard Suchenwirth] 2007-10-11 - Successor to Windows 3.11. Even older (three years) than [Windows 98], but still going strong in some places, e.g. my ancient 200MHz 48MB box at home - where most of my many hundreds of fun projects were made... From 8.5, W95 is no longer supported by [Tcl]/[Tk]. Here's my travelogue how I got Tcl/Tk 8.5b1 built and running, with mingwin/msys, with only two lines of code changed :^) Building [Tcl] 8.5b1 on W95 SE almost worked... just in ''make install'' I got Installing time zone data /bin/sh: ./tclsh85.exe: Permission denied make: *** [install-tzdata] Error 126 and a pop-up which roughly translated says missing Export-USER32.DLL:MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx So it's true when they say W95 is no longer supported... :( The sore spot is $ grep -n MultipleObjectsEx *.c tclWinNotify.c:475: result = MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx(1, &tsdPtr->event, timeout, [GPS] suggested to try it without the "Ex" - this lets ''make install'' come through. ''make test'' still running (hey, this old box has only 200MHz...) In fact, it seems to hang after ---- Result was: timeout {} foobarbaz timeout ---- Result should have been (exact matching): {} timeout foobarbaz timeout ==== io-6.56 FAILED A more patient retry shows that ''io.test'' just takes very long, but ultimately terminates, and lets other tests carry on. Configuring Tk went well, in ''make'' I spotted a warning: D:\MSYS\src\tk8.5b1\win\tkWinEmbed.c:49: warning: 'EmbeddedEventProc' declared ` static' but never defined A bigger problem was another Win symbol, which I just commented out in tkWinX.c, near the end: /* SendInput(1, &inp, sizeof(inp)); */ After this, win85.exe does not come up, but tclsh85.exe with [package require] [Tk] does, and responds as I'd expect... So yes, there's even some hope for ninety-fivers... :^) Not all is well, though. A [canvas] acts and reacts decently, while a [text] widget reacts to insertions from console only after touching it, and to typing in itself very sloppy. So there are still deeper problems. ---- Oh, and besides ActiveTcl 8.4, some things like [eTcl] 1.0-rc23 and [tcltcc] run right out of the binary box here. ---- | [Category Operating System] |