Re: [MACTCL] HINTS PLS -- tcl on MacOX X

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

Franc,

First off, if you have plain Tcl scripts that will run in Tcl 8.3, then 
the simplest route is to just use the installed Tcl.  The standard user 
install of MacOS X has a version of the Unix Tcl, and pretty much 
everything that will work on any other Tcl will work here.  Just fire up 
Terminal.app, run tclsh, and you are all set...

If you want to run Tk scripts, or need Tcl 8.4, then probably the 
simplest thing to do is get the MacOSX Tk binaries that I put up on the 
tcl.sourceforge.net site.  If you cd to your home directory and untar 
the gzipped tar file there, you will get the Tcl & Tk libraries in 
~/Library/Frameworks, and the Wish Shell.app in ~/Applications.  
Double-click on Wish Shell.app, and you will get a console window just 
like on Classic MacTk, and you can type commands at that, or use the 
Source menu item to source them in.

The other option is to get XFree86, and XDarwin, and then either get or 
build the X11 version of Tcl/Tk.  This is a lot more work, and unless 
you have some other need for X11 stuff, or if you need the "send" 
command, probably not worth the effort.  Also, I would rather people 
whack on the native port, since in the long run this is a better way to 
run Tcl/Tk apps on X, and I would appreciate some help finding bugs, 
performance issues, etc of the native version.

If you need the "resource" commands, or any of the other Mac specific 
Tcl/Tk commands, then you might consider pitching in.  I haven't gotten 
these ported to X yet, but there is a macosx folder in the tcl directory 
on sourceforge, and anyone who wants to help getting missing stuff moved 
from MacTcl to MacOSX Tcl will earn my gratitude.  Daniel & I talked 
about taking some of the very Mac specific stuff and putting it in a 
library that gets loaded into Tcl by default, rather than built straight 
in.  But this is a later concern.

Hope this helps,

Jim

On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 06:07  AM, Franc Brglez wrote:

> I'll be installing MacOX X on my Titanium Powerbook this weekend and 
> would
> like to give at  least my own tcl scripts a dry run ...
>
> Any hints and suggestions on "installing tcl (which one)" if not entire 
> tcl
> tcltk under MacOX X will be most timely and appreciated.
>
> Many thansk ... Franc Brglez
>
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Jim Ingham                                                           
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