tcl3270 failure in new Cygwin install

tcl3270 failure in new Cygwin install

[David McNeill]

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

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)?

Thanks,
David

Re: tcl3270 failure in new Cygwin install

[Peter A. Castro]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 06:29:19PM -0400, Cygwin List wrote:

Greetings, David,

> 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.

> Thanks,
> David
> 
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Re: tcl3270 failure in new Cygwin install

[Brian Inglis]

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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