On 2021-09-14 17:27, Peter A. Castro wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 06:29:19PM -0400, David McNeill of the clan McNeill
wrote:
I just performed a new Cygwin install (32 bit) and chose to install
package tcl3270, version 3.3.15ga9-1. Installation of Cygwin, tcl3270
prerequisites, and tcl3270 completed successfully, but when I run
tcl3270.exe within Cygwin I get the following error.
C:/cygwin/bin/tcl3270.exe: error while loading shared libraries:
libtcl8.5.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
Yep, dependency on older tcl libs is the problem.
In Cygwin setup, it shows that tcl 8.6.11-1 is installed. I suspect
that tcl3270 needs to be compiled against the new tcl package. Is the
tcl3270 package still maintained, and if so, can the package
maintainer compile against tcl 8.6.11.1 (assuming this is the
problem)?
Yes, this is the problem, but I'm having system issues and can't easily
rebuild these packages right now. Actually, I'm trying to get the
latest x3270 packages built, but I haven't had much spare time lately.
Might still be a while until this happens.
Just so happens there's this guy called Castro ;^> who keeps copies of
most setups and packages ever released in the Cygwin Time Machine:
http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html
and circa (TM) 6 years ago there's copies of tcl 8.5.18-1:
http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2015/09/14/161026/index.html
with the tar at:
http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2015/09/14/161026/x86_64/release/tcl/tcl-8.5.18-1.tar.xz
$ curl -I
http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2015/09/14/161026/x86_64/release/tcl/tcl-8.5.18-1.tar.xz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:32:33 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.34 (Amazon)
Last-Modified: Wed, 20 May 2015 08:18:00 GMT
ETag: "d60b7e-122404-5167f10ad3e00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1188868
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-xz
so you could run Cygwin Setup to install tcl3270 and its dependencies
from that mirror URL with options:
-X, --no-verify Don't verify setup.ini signatures
--no-version-check Suppress checking if a newer version of setup is
available
-O, --only-site Do not download mirror list, only use sites specified
with -s
-s, --site URL Download site URL
with URL:
http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2015/09/14/161026/
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