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in thread Tcl for Strawberry Perl on Windows 64bit

not quite so simple. This is the result from attempting to build Tcl using lateset Strawberry Perl (perl 5, version 22, subversion 0 (v5.22.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread) and AS TCl (ActiveState ActiveTcl 8.6.4.1.299124 distribution for Win32/x64)

result from perl Makefile.PL 

tclsh=C:/Tcl/bin/tclsh.exe
tclConfig.sh=C:/Tcl/lib/tclConfig.sh
tcl_library=C:/Tcl/lib/tcl8.6
tcl_version=8.6
LIBS   = -LC:/Tcl/lib -ltcl86
INC    = -IC:/Tcl/include
DEFINE =
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Generating a dmake-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for Tcl
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

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which looks right. It found the lib, inc, version, tclsh etc. So when I attempt to make (or rather dmake)

cp Tcl.pm blib\lib\Tcl.pm
Running Mkbootstrap for Tcl ()
"C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod -- 644 
+"Tcl.bs"
"C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "C:\Strawberry\perl\lib\ExtUtils\xsu
+bpp"  -typemap "C:\STRAWB~1\perl\lib\ExtUtils\typemap" -typemap "type
+map"  Tcl.xs > Tcl.xsc && "C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" -MExtUtil
+s::Command -e mv -- Tcl.xsc Tcl.c
Please specify prototyping behavior for Tcl.xs (see perlxs manual)
gcc -c  -IC:/Tcl/include        -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DWIN64 -DCONSERVATIVE 
+-DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -
+fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -s -O2      -DVERSION=\"1.
+02\"    -DXS_VERSION=\"1.02\"  "-IC:\STRAWB~1\perl\lib\CORE"   Tcl.c
"C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" -MExtUtils::Mksymlists \
     -e "Mksymlists('NAME'=>\"Tcl\", 'DLBASE' => 'Tcl', 'DL_FUNCS' => 
+{  }, 'FUNCLIST' => [], 'IMPORTS' => {  }, 'DL_VARS' => []);"
dlltool --def Tcl.def --output-exp dll.exp
g++ -o blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.xs.dll -Wl,--base-file -Wl,dll.base -mdl
+l -s -L"C:\STRAWB~1\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\STRAWB~1\c\lib" Tcl.o   "C:\
+STRAWB~1\perl\lib\CORE\libperl522.a" "C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib" "C:\STRAW
+B~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libmoldname.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64
+-mingw32\lib\libkernel32.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\lib
+user32.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libgdi32.a" "C:\STRAW
+B~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libwinspool.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64
+-mingw32\lib\libcomdlg32.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\lib
+advapi32.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libshell32.a" "C:\S
+TRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w
64-mingw32\lib\libole32.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libol
+eaut32.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libnetapi32.a" "C:\ST
+RAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libuuid.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-
+mingw32\lib\libws2_32.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libmpr
+.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libwinmm.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\
+x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libversion.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw3
+2\lib\libodbc32.a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libodbccp32.
+a" "C:\STRAWB~1\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\lib\libcomctl32.a" dll.exp
C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib: error adding symbols: File format not recognized
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.xs.dll'

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Any ideas? Its clearly struggling with the tcl86.lib format...

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Re^3: Tcl for Strawberry Perl on Windows 64bit
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 21, 2015 at 08:48 UTC
    Any ideas? Its clearly struggling with the tcl86.lib format

    Is tcl86.lib an import lib (stub lib) for a dll ? ... or is it a static library ?
    If it's an import lib, then you can use Strawberry to build a mingw import lib for that dll.
    (Also, just check that it's an x64 library that you've got.)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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Re^3: Tcl for Strawberry Perl on Windows 64bit
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2015 at 06:51 UTC

    not quite so simple.

    It still looks very very simple :)

    Ok, this is simpler, portable activeperl, it comes with Tcl/Tkx http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/5.20.2.2001/ActivePerl-5.20.2.2001-MSWin32-x64-298913.zip

    This is the result from attempting to build Tcl using lateset Strawberry Perl (perl 5, version 22, subversion 0 (v5.22.0) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread) and AS TCl (ActiveState ActiveTcl 8.6.4.1.299124 distribution for Win32/x64)

    result from perl Makefile.PL C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib: error adding symbols: File format not recognized

    Any ideas? Its clearly struggling with the tcl86.lib format...

    That is simple, examine the file

    Step one, get diagnostics 

    file "C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib" 
sha1sum "C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib" 
objdump -p "C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib" |head

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      I'm not sure where the file command comes from. Anyway the size/datetime.... 

      
06/06/2015  06:17           181,880 tcl86.lib

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      I downloaded an sha1sum.exe, here's the result 

      5b2c87ccbc0838d7c9687f15f5ab6a33f7f77837  C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib

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      and the results of objdumo 

      
C:\Tcl\lib>objdump -p "C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib" |head
In archive C:\Tcl\lib\tcl86.lib:

tcl86.dll:     file format pe-x86-64

Characteristics 0x0

Time/Date               Sat Jun 06 05:37:55 2015
Magic                   0000
MajorLinkerVersion      0
MinorLinkerVersion      0

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      I appreciate your help

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        Hmm, thats kinda interesting :)

        Ok next step is do what syphilis suggested which is generate a new "lib" from the dll( HOWTO Create an Import Library for a DLL using MinGW | MinGW )

        So start a new shell and run 

         
chdir C:\Tcl\lib
move tcl86.lib  original-tcl86.lib 

gendef  C:\Tcl\bin\tcl86.dll
dlltool --kill-at --input-def tcl86.def --output-lib tcl86.lib

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        Then back in the the other cmd window run dmake again

        If it doesn't work copy/paste the error to share with us here :)

        Then try again with     dlltool -z tcl86.def --export-all-symbol C:\Tcl\bin\tcl86.dll instead of gendef

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