Re: [eclipse-users] tkeclipse doesn't run

Hi Kish,

I apologize for the late reply - I was out for a couple of
days with a cold. I've tried the edit, but now it complains
about a different .dll, which does seem to be already listed
in the explicit loads:

----
Problem loading the ECLiPSe shared libraries: couldn't load
library "./tkexdr.dll": this library or a dependent library
could not be found in library path
(bin) 1 %
----

Just to be sure, here is my edit of the section of eclipse.tcl
that loads .dlls:

----
set eclipsedir [file dirname [file dirname [info script]]]
source [file join $eclipsedir lib_tcl eclipse_arch.tcl]

set prev [pwd]
cd [file join $eclipsedir lib [ec_arch]]
if { [catch {
	load [file join . tkexdr[info sharedlibextension]]
	# ---- Added by Chuck Lutz on advice from Kish Shen (via email),
26 Apr 07
	load [file join . eclipse[info sharedlibextension]]
	# ----
	load [file join . tkeclipse[info sharedlibextension]]
    } error]
 } {
    cd $prev
    error "Problem loading the ECLiPSe shared libraries: $error"
}
cd $prev
----

I don't know TCL, but it seems that the line with "tkexdr" in
it ought to explicitly load tkexdr.dll. The previous complaint
was that it couldn't load the library ".\tkeclipse.dll"; this
time it is "./tkexdr.dll". I don't know if the forward-slash
is a problem (perhaps Tcl handles "\" vs "/" transparently on
Windows; beats me).

My next idea is to try the manual install, but I haven't yet
looked at it to try to tell if it is likely to solve my problem.

Thanks,
Chuck Lutz

-----Original Message-----
From: Kish Shen [mailto:kish.shen_at_...2...] 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:07 PM
To: Lutz, Charles D
Cc: eclipse-users_at_...2...
Subject: Re: [eclipse-users] tkeclipse doesn't run

Hi Chuck,

On Thursday 26 April 2007 18:29, Lutz, Charles D wrote:
> 
> Yes - sorry about that - It is Win2K, SP4.
> 

OK, so the problem seems likely to be Win2K related. 

We had a Win 2K machine before we left IC-Parc, and we had ECLiPSe
working on that. However,
we changed the way we build ECLiPSe for Windows -- we now cross-compile
everything. I don''t
know if anyone have had ECLiPSe working on a Windows 2K machine since
then.

I am wondering if it is because tkeclipse.dll is unable to find
eclipse.dll on Win 2K. Try adding
an explicit load of eclipse.dll to the eclipse.tcl file:

if { [catch {
	load [file join . tkexdr[info sharedlibextension]]
        load [file join . eclipse[info sharedlibextension]]
	load [file join . tkeclipse[info sharedlibextension]]
    } error]

Try this and see if it works. 

Cheers,

Kish