[MACTCL] Re: tk vs macosx why i dont like project builder

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

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mair,

In article <mai...@c4...>, coyotes rand
mair fheal <mai...@ya...> wrote:

> so what the hell is the error
> 
> oh wait its further above that
> 
> don't know how to make ../library/prolog.ps
> 
> dragged prolog.ps from Tk.frameworks scrits to library
> 

a 15 second google search turns up the answers to all your problems
(because they have been discussed/answered several times already on the
tcl-mac mailing list, which is an good place for any tcl/tk macosx
questions btw)

the trick you missed is that both the Tcl and the Wish projects need a
common build folder, see the tcl-mac archives on how to to set this up
if you want to do it by hand.

also, the library/prolog.ps error was due to a bug in the tk project,
copy the file over from tk/generic/prolog.ps ( tk/library/prolog.ps
exists in CVS but not the distribution archive...)

the other bug you have run into is that the Wish project expects the
tcl directory to be named 'tcl' not 'tcl8.4.0' as is the case when
using the distribution archive. making a symbolic link tcl->tcl.8.4.0
fixes this.

both these bugs are already fixed in the latest projects in CVS BTW, so
if you build from there (or just use the projects from CVS), things
will work more smoothly.

> still doesnt do the install
> not that i could tell it to install to ~/Library instead of /Library anyway
> 

you have to run 'pbxbuild install' as root as usual to install into
/Library. and you _can_ tell it to install into ~/Library by using the
standard
   pbxbuild install INSTALL_ROOT=${HOME}

> why have a computer do all this automatically when you can waste
> a humans time
> 

why use google or the tcl-mac archives when you can waste the
developers' time who actually work on all this by having them answer
the same questions over and over again? :-)

> and this is better than makefiles?

I'm sorry, but if you like makefiles, why don't you use the Makefiles
I've provided in tcl/macosx and tk/macosx? They deal with the common
build folder settings required for the projectbuilder projects to work,
so that you don't have to know about them.

just

   cd tcl/macosx
   make
   sudo make install INSTALL_ROOT=${HOME}
   cd ../../tk/macosx
   make
   sudo make install INSTALL_ROOT=${HOME}

would have done the trick.... (modulo the library/prolog.ps bug)

hope this helps

Cheers,

Daniel

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