Re: [MACTCL] Compiling extensions

[Daniel A. S. <da...@us...>]

Steve,

At 10:11 +1100 on 21/3/01, Steve Cassidy wrote:

>   I've succeeded in building your example extension, thanks for putting it
>together.  I've played around a little with the origanisation of it just to
>put everything in a single directory to make it easier to move to new
>extensions. I moved the project files from the Tcl build directory to a
>subdirectory of sampleextension and modified the access paths to suit.

that's cool,  for your own extensions modifying the access paths from 
what's suggested is obviously ok.
the build directory structure as it is now was setup by jim ingham at 
some point, it's what is suggested for widely distributed extensions 
such as tclx or itcl, to make it easy for other people to use your 
projects on a different machine (i.e. access paths to tcl and tk 
include files are relative to the project, all binaries go into build 
etc...)

>In the end it would seem to be best if we could distribute just the xml
>project file in the source distribution for the extension; everything can be
>recreated from this can't it?

hopefully, although it all depends on what MW come up with in the 
next version... there have been problems before, e.g. project files 
converted properly to a new version but not the xml etc...

it doesn't cost a lot to also include the project for the 
sampleextension, so it's maybe good to leave it there just as 
insurance...

at some point in the past I proposed to move to xml files for the Tcl 
& Tk projects in the cvs server and was met with some resistance... 
for one, the xml files sure are big...

>My next step is to try to move some of my code into here! Wish me luck.

good luck indeed! hope it works out

Cheers,

Daniel
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