Error while building OpenSees source code by Visual Studio

[kesavapraba]

Dear Friends
I am getting the following error when I build the solution (OpenSees.sln for WIN64) of the source code that I downloaded yesterday using TortoiseSVN.

Error: LINK1181 cannot open input file 'tcl86t.lib'

The release version is 6709 and I am using VisualStudio2017. Can anyone help me out to identify what goes wrong and fix it?

[fmk]

did you install tcl .. if so probably in wrong place .. find where tcl lib is and then and then edit the project setting to use that file.

[kesavapraba]

Dear Frank
Thanks for your quick and prompt reply. Yes, I have installed Tcl in the correct location as you instructed. I could not find tcl86t.dll anywhere in Tcl folder. Does the very recent source that I downloaded yesterday requires me to install Tcl version 8.6? Is that error due to the conflict in Tcl version? Because I had Tcl version 8.5 installed when I build the source code.

[fmk]

no .. it is looking for a lib it cannnot find .. look to see in the opensees project settings where tcl86t.lib is being set and try changing to tcl86.lib or whatever the lib you have is.

[CMiculas]

kesavapraba wrote:
> Dear Frank
> Thanks for your quick and prompt reply. Yes, I have installed Tcl in the
> correct location as you instructed. I could not find tcl86t.dll anywhere
> in Tcl folder. Does the very recent source that I downloaded yesterday
> requires me to install Tcl version 8.6? Is that error due to the conflict
> in Tcl version? Because I had Tcl version 8.5 installed when I build the
> source code.

I am facing the same problem. Did you manage to solve it?

[kesavapraba]

No. I did not solve it. It error says tcl86.lib should be referred. But I do not find any lib file in the same name. And moreover I installed 8. 6 version of Tcl and found tcl86.lib file...Then after I ran the file, but it resulted with lot of other errors. I think Dr. Frank and his team can help us.