[MACTCL] Bundling Tk on Mac OS X

[Rupert B. <rb...@ma...>]

Hi,

With Apple's help, Jim has done a great job of bundling Tk on MacOSX in the
form of a TK.framework. I would like to add the following requirements (for
Tcl and Tk), which seem to span across several other frameworks on MacOSX
(e.g. OpenGL et al., i.e. GL, AGL, GLUT, ...)  :

- in Tk.framework/Versions/<M>.<m>, I would like to :
    ln -s . lib
    ln -s Headers include
    ln -s Tk libtk.dylib
    ln -s Tk libtk.<M>.<m>.dylib
(BTW, I always use the precise version number in my -F link option, never
the 'Current' default : e.g. -F ...Tk.framework/Versions/8.4, not -F
...Tk.framework)

- in Tk.framework, we might like to add the same thing, for those who link
against the 'Current' version :
    ln -s . lib
    ln -s Headers include
    ln -s Tk libtk.dylib
    ln -s Tk libtk.<M>.<m>.dylib

- in Tk.framework/Versions/<M>.<m>/Headers, to make the framework usable, I
have had to symlink in all the contents of PrivateHeaders :
    for i in ../PrivateHeaders; do ln -s $i; done
I think this 'PrivateHeaders' business is pretty useless, and the Apple
documentation is not clear on what should go in there. So either symlink as
I have, or put everything in Headers (I prefer the symlink solution, because
it clearly shows which headers are the public interface).

All this symlink-ing makes it easier to configure&build other stuff which
uses Tcl or Tk without having to think too much.
BTW [OT], it would be nice to be able to use something like the
"--enable-framework" configure option to tell this thing's libtool to link
to (for example) the Tk framework and not the Tk *.dylib, and generate a
    -F...Tk.framework/Versions/8.4 Tk
link option instead of
    -L...Tk.framework/lib -ltk8.4

- I like the Tcl and Tk ProjectBuilder projects, although they are
different. There is a problem in Tcl's : you cannot 'make clean' with the
broom ! In Tk's, Jim worked nicely around some *glaring* bugs in Apple's
"copy files build phase" : well done, I will reuse that.

TTFN,
Rupert