Re: [MACTCL] Building Aqua Tk on MacOS X

[Franc B. <br...@cb...>]

Dear Jean-Claude,

I'll be eternally grateful if you can document and post an "OS X 
tcltk install process for the dummies" that is transparently as 
simple as one under OS9.x now, so that I end up with an environment 
where I can just copy most existing OS9.x tcltk programs to OS X 
partition and invoke them readily with tclsh or wish under OS X (as I 
do now under OS 9.2). Making a "drag & drop tclet" would be nice but 
is not an essential priority (for me at least).

I didn't get too far in October -- the version was buggy, and despite 
kind help from Jim, it was way too early for someone with my limited 
experience to continue -- I'll get back to OS X once I am confident 
that our OS9.2 tcktk programs will "just work as is" under OS X as 
well as they do currently under unix, linux, and windows.

We have by now developed, UNDER macOS9.2, a very comfortable 
cross-platform "8.3.4 ticklish environment" that will address and 
resolve a number of questions from less experienced tcltk 
mac-programmers on this forum -- including platform independent 
self-installation of paths for each and every program and library 
package we develop. We hope to have this environment documented and 
ready for release by the tcltk conference submission deadline. It 
will be a tribute to all tcltk mac-developers who made this 
mac-platform development possible for us -- in particular if we can 
port it cleanly also to macOS X and report on it.

Many thansk to Jim, you, and others "in the know".

Franc

PS -- once you made a posting, pls send mail under a new header, eg.
      "OS X tcltk installation, testing, and verification notes"

At 4:15 PM +0100 3/1/02, Jean-Claude Wippler wrote:
>Steve Landers <st...@di...> wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to build Aqua Tk on MacOS X, using Jim's instructions posted
>>back in October. I'm doing this in the hope of getting TclKit working on
>>Aqua Tk supporting dynamic loading.
>[...]
>>BTW, the machine is an iBook running MacOS X 10.1.3 using the December
>>2001 developer tools.
>
>I'd like to help.  I have just configured the same setup from scratch,
>and am about to grab Tcl/Tk etc sources (also incrtcl).  Given that my
>setup is clean, this will make a good test case for working through the
>entire build process.
>
>Is it a good idea to get the macosx branches of tcl/tk from CVS, HEAD
>revision and follow instructions (which?) from there on?
>
>If someone can point me to the proper spot(s), I'll report my progress.
>Steve: the least that ought to come out is finding out whether/how your
>setup differs from mine in any way.
>
>-jcw
>
>
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