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   1 Comments on building tcl/tk for AMD64 with the MS SDK compiler
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   3
   4 I did have to build tcl/tk manually.
   5
   6 First, I had to build the nmakehlp.exe helper utility manually by executing
   7    cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib
   8 in both the tcl8.4.12\win and tk8.4.12\win directories.
   9
  10 Second, the AMD64 compiler refuses to compile the file
  11 tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c because it insists on using intrinsics
  12 for the 'ceil' and 'floor' functions:
  13
  14   ..\generic\tclExecute.c(394) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant
  15   ..\generic\tclExecute.c(398) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant
  16
  17 I did comment out these lines; an alternative would have been to use
  18 the /Oi- compiler flag to disable the intrinsic functions.
  19 The commands then used were these:
  20
  21    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.12
  22    cd tcl8.4.12\win
  23    REM
  24    echo patch the tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c file
  25    pause
  26    REM
  27    cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib
  28    nmake -f makefile.vc MACHINE=AMD64
  29    nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install
  30    cd ..\..
  31    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.12
  32    cd tk8.4.12\win
  33    cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib
  34    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 MACHINE=AMD64
  35    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install
  36    cd ..\..