Re: Tcl 9 Build failure using Visual Studio 2022

On 10/10/2024 1:07 PM, Michael Soyka wrote:

I've downloaded the tcl900-src.zip file from SourceForge and am trying to build it using the "buildall.vc.bat" script with Visual Studio 2022. Other than defining INSTALLDIR, I've changed nothing.  The executables and packages appear to build without error but not the help files which fail like so:
 : make-manpage-section: not table of contents.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'win\Debug_VC1941\tclsh90.exe win\.. \tools\tcltk-man2html.tcl "--htmldir=win\Debug_VC1941\html"' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
*** BOOM! ***
DONE!
 Note that I've shortened the paths in the above error message for clarity.
 Can anyone help?
 -mike

To answer my own question, the work-around, at the moment, is to not build the docs.  This means not using the shell script but invoking nmake directly:
   nmake -nologo -f makefile.vc release
   nmake -nologo -f makefile.vc install
This allows me to test my apps using 9.0.  The docs issue can be addressed later.