Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> I am abandoning further effort altogether, because of this:
> adunstan: ~/tcl8.4.9/win
> $ ./configure --enable-shared
> checking for Cygwin environment... yes
> configure: error: Compiling under Cygwin is not currently supported.
> A maintainer for the Cygwin port of Tcl/Tk is needed. See the README
> file for information about building with Mingw.
Wow. That implies that the Tcl community knows about the problems and
considers them nontrivial to fix (else they'd have just fixed 'em).
So we'll just forget that for now...
regards, tom lane