[Xastir] More testing with cygwin--gpsman/gpsmanshp

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Kirk Mefford wrote:

> gcc -Wall -fPIC -c -I/usr/include/tcl8.3 gpsmanshp.c
> cc1: warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is postion independent)
> gpsmanshop.c: In function 'nodbffields':
> gpsmanshop.c:206: warning: deprecated use of label at end of compound statement

That you can ignore.


> gcc -shared -o gpsmanshp.so -lshp -ltcl8.3 gpsmanshp.o
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -ltcl8.3

That you can't ignore.  You need to install TCL in Cygwin.  It's
looking for a filename like "libtcl8.3.exe".

Hopefully you can install TCL version 8.3.  If you install a
different version, you'll need to tweak a file or two in gpsmanshp
and recompile.

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