Re: [MACTCL] Compiling extensions

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

Steve,

At 10:26 +1100 on 8/3/01, Steve Cassidy wrote:

>I'm finding my feet with porting mac extensions. After getting the XML
>project file for QuicktimeTcl from Daniel I've managed to put together a
>project for the sample extension with only a few obvious changes. However t=
o
>get the project to link I had to add Tcl8.3.shlb and Tk8.3.shlb in addition
>to the two Stib.lib libraries.

you should not need to do that, if you do, you're locking yourself 
against a minor version of Tcl and are not taking advantage of the 
stub libraries.

>The extension now links and I can load it into tcl and the commands are the=
re
>but it crashes when I try:
>
>sha1 -string foobar
>
>so obviously something is amis.=CA
>
>  - should the project include the two shlb files?

no

>  - does someone have a port of the sample extension to CW6 and Daniel's
>build?

I was planning to do that at some stage, now might be a good a time as any.

this is the scriptics sample extension from 
ftp://ftp.ajubasolutions.com//pub/tcl/examples/tea/SampleTclExtension.tar.SI=
T.hqx
you're referring to, correct?

I'll try to update it to Pro6 and post it somewhere ASAP

>
>  my goal is not so much to get the sample extension going but to be able t=
o
>port my own code so I'd like to understand the requirements of the build
>system and why this is failing.

Cheers,

Daniel
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