Re: [TCLCORE] Directions for setting up Tk for macOS/XQuartz

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

The Makefile in the macosx directory is optimized for Aqua and stores its build files in a different location than Unix. You might have been reinstalling a prior build of Aqua when you ran make install. 

> On Dec 6, 2025, at 10:30 AM, Erik Leunissen <el...@xs...> wrote:
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> On 12/6/25 15:26, Kevin Walzer wrote:
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>> ... run configure from the Unix subdirectory.
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> Hi Kevin,
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> Thanks for your response.
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> It's the above line that made the difference. I was building from the macosx subdirectory. (And I don't understand why that is wrong when being on macOS, even if the targeted windowingsystem is x11.)
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> Indeed, doing "make shell" or "make test" from the unix directory now works correctly: the wish and tktest executables find the X-server and return "x11" for [tk windowingsystem].
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> Thanks,
> Erik.
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