i made that suggestion
prior to knowing that this was a 32 bit program being built on a 64 bit OS that is NOT multi lib

also a TON of older code will NOT compile on gcc 4.8 or 4.9

sometimes it is a simple few line hack to get the old code up to the current gcc specs

other times it is WAY easier to have a few versions of gcc installed
if i see an average gcc4.8 build error i will drop to 4.3 , most of the time it will build
or use gcc34
( old habits and a long history of using Fedora and building most programs i use with the very very very NEW version of gcc )


also IF the code built AND worked in gcc 4.3 then we WOULD know that that is the issue
if it still did not work then a tcl issue

but again

without knowing the full build commands and any errors
nor the last error of a "strace"
or the output of gdb .......

Hello All,

This is what I did:

I downloaded as suggested the multilib packages. After successfully downloading I went
to the point in the instructions, "Compiling 32-bit programs" and entered
. /etc/profile.d/32dev.sh. The prompt changed to:
root@work1 (32bit):/bytex/bytex_gui#
At the prompt I then entered gcc -o bytex bytex.c. The following are the error messages returned:
bytex.c: in function 'check error':
bytex.c:1311:37 error: 'Tcl_Interp' has no member named 'result'
fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", interp >result);
bytex.c:1317:54: error: 'Tcl_Interp' has no member named 'result'
fprintf(stderr, "Tcl_Int failed: %s\n", interp >result
bytex.c:1323:53 error: 'Tcl_Interp' has no member named 'result'
fprintf(stderr, "Tk_Init failed: %s\n", interp >result'

Again the program was written on a Slackware version below 12.2 and before my time. I have no C programming experience and I am trying to get the script to work on Slackware 14.1 64 bit.

The actual problem is:
From the command line I would enter go_bytex. A GUI appears with an assortment of function buttons that perform individual functions. For the most part when one of these buttons is pressed, using the mouse, the GUI disappears and I am returned to the command line with an error message. Here is a message when one of the buttons is pressed:
alloc: invalid block: 0x16d9930: 0 0
/bytex/go_bytex: line 4: 3542 Aborted bytex

What can I do now?

Thanks.

Regards,

Jeff

your next step would be to download the source and SlackBuild as suggested by dugan. http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-12.2/source/tcl/

Try making a 64-bit executable and if that doesn't work, 32-bit.

Well, in this case your program is buggy (only the bug didn't manifest in the older configuration). Your options:
- contact the original programmer
- hire another programmer
- install a virtual computer with the previous working configuration

Try upgrading the 12.2 machine's TCL package to 8.6.1. Then rebuild the program on the 12.2 machine and test it on the 12.2 machine again. If that breaks the application, then you know that the issue is TCL 8.6.1 not being backward compatible with 8.5.5.