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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I am trying to compile the VIC source files for the the Alpha 2.2 release of the Access Grid Toolkit - I was hoping that someone could help me out. Using the Visual Studio .Net 2003 (VC7) projects, I get syntax errors on compilation of the tcl2c generated C files...(note: TCL/TK 8.0 binaries are already installed on my system)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">For example, in the TCLLIB and TKLIB projects the following errors are generated on compilation:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tcl-8.0\win\lib_word.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tcl-8.0\win\lib_safe.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tcl-8.0\win\lib_parray.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tcl-8.0\win\lib_optparse.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tcl-8.0\win\lib_ldAout.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tcl-8.0\win\lib_init.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tcl-8.0\win\lib_http.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tcl-8.0\win\lib_history.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tk-8.0\win\lib_xmfbox.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tk-8.0\win\lib_tkfbox.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tk-8.0\win\lib_tk.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ......\ag-media\tk-8.0\win\lib_text.c(3): error C2059: syntax error : '}'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">If I modify any of these files and enter a character place holder in between the curly braces and recompile, the files compile fine; for example:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ORIGINAL LIB_HISTORY.C (gives syntax errors)</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> char</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> lib_history[] = {};</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> MODIFIED LIB_HISTORY.C (compiles fine)</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> char</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> lib_history[] = {'\0'};</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Because the TCL/TK 8.0 binaries are already installed on my system, I have tried to bypass the compilation of TCLLIB & TKLIB; however this results in a "[</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mkcube]</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">usage error at the custom build step" of the compilation process. (Note: I have managed to get a previous version of VIC to compile (libraries and all) with VC6 -> VC7 gives the same problems as above with the previous version)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">How would I go about fixing these errors and compiling the VIC code? Any help you can give, would be appreciated. Thanks!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Siraj</FONT>
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