Thread: [line-devel] Line As A Tcl Extension?

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[line-devel] Line As A Tcl Extension?

From: Jim R. <Jim...@dy...> - 2003-10-29 15:33:18

I was hoping that it would be feasible to create a Tcl extension from 
LINE that would enable Tcl to load Linux shared objects into a Tcl 
interpreter running under Windows.  Is this idea completely crazy?  If 
not, I would really appreciate a few tips on where to begin.

Re: [line-devel] Line As A Tcl Extension?

From: Jakob E. <ja...@vm...> - 2003-10-29 16:05:51

Jim Russell wrote:

> I was hoping that it would be feasible to create a Tcl extension from 
> LINE that would enable Tcl to load Linux shared objects into a Tcl 
> interpreter running under Windows.  Is this idea completely crazy?  If 
> not, I would really appreciate a few tips on where to begin.
>

How about instead running linux Tcl directly?  Would that help?

Jakob

Re: [line-devel] Line As A Tcl Extension?

From: Jim R. <Jim...@dy...> - 2003-10-29 16:19:59

That's not exactly what I'm wanting.  My real goal is to create a Tcl 
starkit (see http://mini.net/tcl/starkit) that runs under Windows, but 
is easily maintained through the LINE extension.  If I had the ability 
to load Linux shared libraries into a Windows executable, it be much 
easier to add extensions to the starkit.  I wouldn't even have to 
compile or cross-compile the extension into a Windows DLL.  The idea 
sounds good, but I'm not experienced with the inner workings of dynamic 
loaders, especially those running under Windows.  It may not even be 
workable, but I hoped that this group could give me insight as to how 
much effort is required.

Jakob Eriksson wrote:
> 
> 
> How about instead running linux Tcl directly?  Would that help?
> 
> Jakob
> 
> 
>

Re: [line-devel] Line As A Tcl Extension?

From: Jakob E. <ja...@vm...> - 2003-10-29 16:30:25

Jim Russell wrote:

> That's not exactly what I'm wanting.  My real goal is to create a Tcl 
> starkit (see http://mini.net/tcl/starkit) that runs under Windows, but 
> is easily maintained through the LINE extension.  If I had the ability 
> to load Linux shared libraries into a Windows executable, it be much 
> easier to add extensions to the starkit.  I wouldn't even have to 
> compile or cross-compile the extension into a Windows DLL.  The idea 
> sounds good, but I'm not experienced with the inner workings of 
> dynamic loaders, especially those running under Windows.  It may not 
> even be workable, but I hoped that this group could give me insight as 
> to how much effort is required.

I suspect what you want to do is quite doable.  Similar projects on the 
other side of  the fence
have been done. (Windows things run under linux - see mplayer, 
captive-ntfs and other projects.)

I am afraid though, that this group is very silent.

I for instance, am not really related to the project - interested 
bystander only.

regards,
Jakob