[MACTCL] Re: Installing TCL/TK on MacOS X

[Benjamin R. <Ben...@ep...>]

Hi Kevan,


Kevan Hashemi <ha...@br...> writes:
> I have tcl8.4.4-src.tar and tk8.4.4-src.tar, which I expand to two
> folders tcl8.4.4 and tk8.4.4. At this point, I have the BI package
> installed as well.

> Ben...@ep... wrote:
>> and follow the instructions in the README files.
>
> There is no tcl8.4.4/macosx/README. There is a tcl8.4.4/README, but
> it does not talk about macosx, which led me to think that I should
> use the UNIX installation procedure.

I see.  I just downloaded the source package myself and you are right,
the README is missing.  It is in CVS and it is marked with the 8.4.4
release tag, so something may just be wrong with the packaging script
that created that archive.  I will investigate.

If you are still interested, you can get the text of the README from
ViewCVS at
<http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tcl/tcl/macosx/README?rev=1.1.2.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>.

> Nevertheless, I can open the tcl.pbproj file and compile the tcl
> library (45 warnings, mostly signed-unsigned comparison).  The
> libraries show up in a $home/build folder.

Good.

> The tk8.4.4/macosx/README exists, and mentions tcl.pbproj. It also
> implies the existance of a TK .pbproj file, which I assume is the
> wish.pbproj file I found in the same folder.
>
> I open wish.pbproj, select the wish target, and start building. My
> computer works hard for a few minutes. It compiles all the generic
> TK source files, and then aborts on tkMacOSXMenu.c with a parsing
> error, and failure to find function newIndex.

I'll try it myself and than I'll investigate what that means.

> My project builder is using GCC 3.1. I once forced it to use 3.3,
> according to Apple's instructions, but that made no difference. I
> tried compiling the TK dynamic or stub libraries instead, but the
> compiler fails at the same place. I'm running MacOS 10.2.6 with X11
> loaded.

Thanks so far for the bug report.  I'll post again, when I know more.


benny