Re: [MACTCL] Tix for MacOS X ?

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

On 12/9/01 5:01 AM, "Ruediger Goetz" <rg...@r-...> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to this list and I never have into coding
> TCl/Tk themselves before. However, I used programming
> for years on other fields (mainly numerics).
> 
> About a year ago I started to created PIM-Application
> for Linux (minkowsky, see www.r-goetz.de/minkowskt/ , its only
> German up to now, however). I'm using Tcl/Tk and Tix for this task.
> I choosed this Tookkits for two reasons, beeing familiar with it
> and portability.
> 
> Since the first release of minkowsky I watched out for Tk beeing available
> for MacOS X. Unfortunately I m stuck in getting Tk mand Tix running under
> MacOS X.
> 
> In order to build tix I obtained the tk-source from CVS and tried to
> build tk from  the scratch. Unfortunatelt I didn't found any install
> documention for MacOS X (or did I miss it ?). Simply doing a
> configure in the unix-subdirectory didn't work (as expected).
> But I found nothing in the macosx subdirectory but an Wish.pbproj
> folder containing nothing but CVS controll files.

Did you check out the right branch?  You should have checked out
macosx-8-4-branch to get all the files.  If there isn't a file called
project.pbxproj in the Wish.pbproj folder then something went wrong.

Anyway, look back in the archives of this list, the Announcement I sent of
the first Mac OS X Tk release has some notes on how to build the thing.

> 
> Now my questions are
> - How to build tk on  MacOS X

The Announcements notes will show you how.  Basically, you just run the main
target in the PB Project.  But it sounds like something went wrong with your
checkout.

> - Is there already a running tix for MacOS X (natively not with XDarwin)

No.

> - What problems should I expect on porting tix?
> 

I don't know, I haven't looked at it.  If it uses more of the X libraries
than is in the Wish porting layer, then you may need to fill in Mac OS X
versions of these calls.  It has been ported to Windows, however, so this
might not be a big deal.  I bet mostly it will be figuring out how to get it
built.

> If I missed some documention, pointer thereto would be appreciated as well.
> 

Besides the announcement note I sent, no.

Tell us how you get along (once you can get things to build at all :-( ),
and we will try to help out.  It would be great to get Tix going.

Jim
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