kitgen woes

I am struggling with kitgen on Windows using Msys/MinGW.   Really
struggling (and that's having got genkit running really nicely for me).

A lot of the problem appears to be with the relative location of
header files.   makefile.include has a relative location for TCLDIR,
which causes lots of problems with apparently missing include files;
various libraries, notably vqtcl, tcl, tcldde and tclreg, don't get
built, and the compiler thinks it finds a syntax error before line 135
in vlerq.c - and I can't for the life of me see anything there, so
presumably this is a side effect of an error possibly in an include
file.

Somebody tell me this is all known and sorted if only I read a post I
have missed or an update.   Where should my tcl and tk hierarchies go?
I have them in kitgen/8.4/tcl and kitgen/8.4.tk.   What's the problem
with vlerq.c (it compiles fine on a Unix box)?

It almost feels to me as if kitgen is meant to work on a system that
has Tcl/Tk installed already in unspecified locations, and that it
won't build independently within its own file hierarchy.

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Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]>