Thanks for the advice Wilfred but I have sorted this problem myself in the
meantime after a little Googling. The tcl/win branch now builds fine. Keith:
Attached the three files with all changes clearly annotated (with "pir").
That's the good news...

The bad news is that gdb breaks. I have managed to solve one problem - an
obvious problem in a source file which clearly the latest version of gcc
will not tolerate. Other problems remain but I guess this is not the
appropriate list for raising purely gdb problems....


Peter




> -----Original Message-----
> From: insight-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:insight-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of 
> wilfried.fauvel@laposte.net
> Sent: 23 December 2005 13:38
> To: insight
> Subject: Re:FW: Can't build Insight with Cygwin
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think you can use the patch command 
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html) with the .diff 
> file, I have made it manually : you only have to open the 
> three files listed ("RCS file:") in the .diff file, and 
> replace the - lines by the + lines at the corresponding 
> patterns. I have tested to build on another config (with the 
> same cygwin version : 1.5.18(0.132/4/2), and the same 
> sources), and it seems to crash still ...
> 
> Good luck.
> 
>  > Hi
> >
> > Thanks, Wilfred! This at least confirms my view that there did not 
> > seem to be any regular way this source could build. If I read it 
> > right, Dave Korn has confirmed that the Win32Dll.c code 
> relies on an 
> > idiosyncrasy of an earlier version of gcc. Wilfred, can you post a 
> > patch? I have read Dave Korn's fix but as I have always studiously 
> > avoided assembler I just don't understand what to do to 
> implement it!
> >
> > BTW: Keith, I have used the latest cygwin download which I think is 
> > gcc 3.4... (see Dave Korn's post). I am interested in Insight under 
> > Windows because I have used MSVC in the past (great debugger!) but 
> > want to migrate to gnu for cross-platform reasons. There's a lot of 
> > IDEs available for gcc but debugging support is generally 
> poor. Hence 
> > the interest in Insight. Keith, I guess the cygwin compiler on your 
> > Win2K box is an old version...
> >
> > Finally, I tried building with mingw 3.4.4 and the 
> offending section 
> > in tcl/win seems to build OK!! But mingw breaks on the ./bfd 
> > sub-directory. Output below. Any ideas on this one? This looks like 
> > something has coughed in the make file - again, I've studiously 
> > avoided using make...
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > 
> ######################################################################
> > ######
> > #############################
> > >
> > > make[2]: Entering directory `/c/insight-6.4/bfd'
> > > Making info in doc
> > > make[3]: Entering directory `/c/insight-6.4/bfd/doc'
> > > restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
> > > am__cwd=`pwd` && cd ../.././bfd/doc && \
> > > rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
> > > for f in ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info-[0-9]
> > > ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info-[0-9][0-9]
> > > ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.i[0-9] ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
> > > if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :;
> > > fi; \ done; \ cd "$am__cwd"; \
> > > if makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I
> > > ../.././bfd/doc \
> > > -o ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info ../.././bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo; \ then \
> > > rc=0; \
> > > cd ../.././bfd/doc; \
> > > else \
> > > rc=$?; \
> > > cd ../.././bfd/doc && \
> > > $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info" |
> > > sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \ fi; \ rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
> > > section mapping'.ss reference to nonexistent node `mmo a New
> > > Hash Table Type'.ference to nonexistent node `Deriving
> > > makeinfo: Removing output file `../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info' due
> > > to errors; use --force to preserve.
> > > make[3]: *** [../.././bfd/doc/bfd.info] Error 2
> > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/insight-6.4/bfd/doc'
> > > make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/insight-6.4/bfd'
> > > make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/insight-6.4'
> > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > >
> > 
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