[MACTCL] Re: Mac Tcl/Tk

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

At 8:39 -0400 on 3/7/01, Ernest E. Rothman wrote:

>Thanks for all your great work on Mac tcl/tk.  I was just wondering 
>if you and/or anyone
>else is working on porting tcl/tk to Mac OS X.

Ernie,

OSX comes with Tcl 8.3.2 preinstalled from Apple.

I've just submitted a patch to sourceforge that improves build 
support and dynamic loading for the sourceforge 8-3-1-branch i.e. 
8.3.3 currently.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=435258&group_id=10894&atid=310894

I've also posted some instructions for building and installing 8.3.3 
on OSX in the same way as Apple did with 8.3.2 on
http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/darwin.html
(the patch mentioned there is identical to the one on sourceforge)

Re: Tk, I've just posted the following to c.l.t, ignore the bit on 
tcl.m4 updates, that's included in the patch above

--- begin forwarded text

In article <9hup8g$gs9$3...@sr...>, <lv...@ya...> wrote:

>  According to morgan mair fheal <mai...@ww...>:
>  :is the tk port to mac os x still ongoing?
>  :
>  :or finsihed
>
>  Which aspect - the port to the X side, or the port to the MacOS side?
>
>  I believe I talked to one of the clt recently who is using an iBook and
>  MacOS X who indicated that on the X side it wasn't too painful to get
>  Tcl/Tk built (or perhaps he indicated that it was built and he merely had
>  to bring it up).

Tk on X on OSX presents no problem, you can install a binary
distribution of XFree86 4.1.0 from xfree86.org or use the commercial
XTools.
then just build Tk from sources like on any other unix, you might need
the tcl.m4 updates checked into tcl core-8-3-1-branch but not the HEAD
yet (working on it), they should be present in the downloadable 8.3.3
source archives as well.

There is work being done on a carbonization of MacTk but no other
details are available at this time.

--- end forwarded text

to build Tk with the Tcl patch above you'll need the following Tk patch as well
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=435260&group_id=12997&atid=312997
and you should build your Tcl without --enable-threads like on other unices

Cheers,

Daniel
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