[MACTCL] REPOST: Porting to the Mac

[Michael T. <mt...@ee...>]

Hi,

  Sorry to repost this, but I haven't gotten any responses my previous
emails about building a standalone C/Tcl/Tk app for Classic MacOS. If
anyone has any ideas or questions, please let me know.

Thanks,
Mike

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Hi,

  I have been trying to port an application that uses Tcl/Tk to MacOS 9.
Basically, I am porting the graphical version of a virtual machine to
which there is a corresponding command-line driven version. Since the
command line version was written in C, when the developers wanted to make
a user-friendly front end, they developed an interface in Tcl/Tk, and
built a custom interpreter with their C functions compiled into it that
would immediately evaluate the Tcl/Tk code to bring up the interface. On a
standard Linux box, it is compiled as:

/usr/bin/gcc -o myprog -g -O -fPIC -W -Wall -Wno-char-subscripts -static
myprog_ide.o myprog_wish.o myprog_gui.o
-ltk8.0 -ltcl8.0 -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lm -ldl

After compiling the source files myprog_ide.c, myprog_wish.c and
myprog_gui.c (each compiled as):

/usr/bin/gcc -g -O -fPIC -I/custom/header/directory  -c aide8_XXX.c

Where the tk.h and tcl.h files were present in /custom/header/directory

The myprog_ide.c file contains the main function which sets up a
Tcl_Interp and a Tk_Window, calls Tcl_Init and Tk_Init, sets up the main
window and then eventually hands off control to Tk_MainLoop.

The myprog_wish.c file contains the C functions that are being made
available to the Tcl/Tk environment with the Tcl_CreateCommand function,
and a makeBindings function that binds them into the Tcl environment
(this is called from main in the previous file).

The myprog_gui.c file contains functions that pull the contents of the
Tcl/Tk text boxes, radio buttons, etc. into the C code.

  On the Unix side it is straight-forward to compile this (as shown
above), and it works without a hitch. What I would like to do is make a
Codewarrior project that includes these C files, plus the apporpriate
MacOS9 libraries, but I am not sure which to add to the project. I don't
know which libraries that come in the build directory are appropriate for
this kind of project, and I am also not sure what I will need to satisfy
the X11 requirements. Further, when I have tried building the Tcl or Tk
shells using the Codewarrior Project files that have been shipped, I can't
get them to compile either (I wrote to the list about it, but received no
responses).

  If anyone has any ideas that they think might be helpful, please let me
know. I am very curious if it is common practice on the Classic MacOS to
build a custom interpreter, as it is such a straight-forward process under
UNIX-based operating systems.

Thanks,
Michael Tucker