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From: R. Timothy Edwards (tim AT opencircuitdesign DOT com)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 11:19:40 EDT

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    At the end of last week, I made an attempt to compile Magic-7.2 as
the Tcl extension in Cygwin.  I quickly discovered a major snag:
the Tk graphics package in Cygwin is compiled with the native
Windows graphics API, not with X11.  Currently, under the Tcl/Tk
interface, magic-7.2 opens a Tk window and, assuming it is an X11
window, starts firing X11 commands at it.  Thus, even if it would
compile correctly (which I managed to do, finally, although it
wasn't easy), it won't run.  I have a set of WIN32API routines
for the graphics module in magic, and I am working on debugging
them.  Meanwhile, the only way to run Magic-7.2 under Tcl in
Cygwin is to compile a new version of Tk (to install target
/usr/local, for instance, so as not to overwrite the exisiting
Tk version) to work with X11, and link to that.  Be warned that
this is not a trivial exercise.

					Regards,
					Tim

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