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

Lutz, Charles D wrote:
> 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
>   
This is surprising...I am assuming that the messages about loading 
xxx.dll comes when xxx.dll is being
loaded, but adding the explicit load for eclipse.dll should not cause 
the earlier load of tkexdr.dll to fail..

Can you add the following lines

     load [file join . tkexdr[info sharedlibextension]]

          tk_meesageBox -type ok -message "loaded tkexdr.dll" 

and similar tk_messageBox lines (with eclipse.dll and tkeclipse.dll in 
the message) after the other loads.
This should cause a window to popup saying that the library have been 
loaded, and so this should let us know where the problem is (because we 
don't get the popup window as the load fails).
Could you do this and let me know the results? [It may be best to just 
send them to me only instead of the whole mailing list]

> ----
>
> 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).
>
>   
The code should be doing that -- Tcl provides OS independent ways of 
specifying these OS dependent things, eg. file join  adds the correct 
file separator (\ or /), and info sharedlibextension returns the correct 
extension for shared libraries (dll for Windows).

Cheers,

Kish
> 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
>