Insight 5.2.1 linking problems

Insight 5.2.1 linking problems

[Alexander Stepanov]

I'm getting that error on the linking stage:

make[1]: Entering directory `/src/insight-5.2.1/tcl'
make[2]: Entering directory `/src/insight-5.2.1/tcl/win'
gcc -shared -g -O2  -o cygtcl83.dll
-Wl,--out-implib,libcygtcl83.a regcomp.o regexec.o regfree.o regerror.o
tclAlloc.o tclAsync.o tclBasic.o tclBinary.o tclCkalloc.o tclClock.o
tclCmdAH.o tclCmdIL.o tclCmdMZ.o tclCompCmds.o tclCompExpr.o
tclCompile.o tclDate.o tclEncoding.o tclEnv.o tclEvent.o tclExecute.o
tclFCmd.o tclFileName.o tclGet.o tclHash.o tclHistory.o tclIndexObj.o
tclInterp.o tclIO.o tclIOCmd.o tclIOGT.o tclIOSock.o tclIOUtil.o
tclLink.o tclLiteral.o tclListObj.o tclLoad.o tclMain.o tclNamesp.o
tclNotify.o tclObj.o tclPanic.o tclParse.o tclParseExpr.o tclPipe.o
tclPkg.o tclPosixStr.o tclPreserve.o tclProc.o tclRegexp.o tclResolve.o
tclResult.o tclScan.o tclStringObj.o tclStubInit.o tclStubLib.o
tclThread.o tclTimer.o tclUtf.o tclUtil.o tclVar.o tclWin32Dll.o
tclWinChan.o tclWinConsole.o tclWinSerial.o tclWinError.o tclWinFCmd.o
tclWinFile.o tclWinInit.o tclWinLoad.o tclWinMtherr.o tclWinNotify.o
tclWinPipe.o tclWinSock.o tclWinThrd.o tclWinTime.o  strftime.o
tcl.res.o 
Creating library file: libcygtcl83.a
bfd_close libcygtcl83.a: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [cygtcl83.dll] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/src/insight-5.2.1/tcl/win'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/insight-5.2.1/tcl'
make: *** [all-tcl] Error 2

What can be wrong?
I've found out that without  -Wl,--out-implib,libcygtcl83.a option (i.e.
not to create import library) linker does not raise an error.

Gcc version is 3.2

Best regards,
Alexander Stepanov
SoftMine Corp., Software Developer
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Re: Insight 5.2.1 linking problems

[Keith Seitz]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Alexander Stepanov wrote:

> What can be wrong?
> I've found out that without  -Wl,--out-implib,libcygtcl83.a option (i.e.
> not to create import library) linker does not raise an error.

Never seen that problem before, but I also never compile 5.2.1 anymore. 
Try 5.3 or newer. (Be forewarned about tcl8.3 problems on cygwin... See 
webpage for details.)

Keith