[MACTCL] Standalone on Mac OS 9x...

[Andrew W. <an...@aa...>]

Hi,

it's almost the year's end so I'm trying to fill up my quota of
stupid questions before it's too late...

How do I build a single-file download containing a standalone
version of my pure-tcl application?

I'd assumed that the answer was:

1.	install the latest tcl/tk for macos 9
2.	drop the .tcl script onto the D&D Tclet app
3.      put the resulting app into a folder, compress it and put
	it on the web.

But it looks like I need to ensure that users of the application
have also installed the latest tcl/tk on their own machines.  This
is not so good...  I need the application to work on a user's
machine even if they've got no copy of tcl/tk.

If I attempt to run the application on a machine that has no tcl/tk
installed, then starting the application results in an error dialog.
I seems to be looking for a system/extensions/tcltkstuff (sic)
folder, can't find it and panics.

Is there a way to construct the application so that it contains
all the necessary *.tcl library files, say in a series of resources,
or by adding the *.tcl files to the shipped application's folder.
It would be nice if I didn't have to install those shipped libraries
under the system/extensions folder on the target machine.

I'm clearly missing something simple here, can someone point out
what it is.. or at-least only throw soft fruit? ;)

Cheers,
Ay.

an...@aw...
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