[Xotcl] Building debug version on Windows

[Jamie Rasmussen]

Hello,
   I have a binary installer of AOLserver 4.5 for Win32, and I'd like to 
add XOTcl 1.5.2 to it, since I know OpenACS 5.3 will require it.  While 
running some load tests on the binaries I built I saw a crash in 
XOTclAddIMethod.  I'm not worried about that crash yet, since I think it 
might have been caused by a bad interaction with the nstclprof module.
   But to investigate further, I tried to compile a debug version of 
XOTcl, and I've run into some problems.  The compiler is Visual Studio 
6, and the command line I was using is:
nmake /f Makefile.vc DEBUG=1
   * I am trying to compile against TCL 8.4.14, which was compiled with 
the  threads and thrdalloc options.  The first problem I had was with 
the values of TCLIMPLIB and TCLSH in Makefile.vc, which didn't reflect 
that the threaded build includes a 't' in the filename before $(DBGX) 
for the .lib and tclsh.  This applies to 
\library\store\XOTclSdbm\Makefile.vc too.
   * The -WX compiler option (error instead of warning) is specified for 
DEBUG=1, so compilation aborts because of this warning:
..\generic\xotcl.c(5271) : warning C4018: '==' : signed/unsigned mismatch.
   * I also noticed XOTCL_RELEASE_LEVEL=.0 and not .2 - is that intentional?
Any suggestions?  I'm new to XOTcl, but I already like it - thanks.

Jamie