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

[Erik L. <el...@xs...>]

On 12/6/25 17:17, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> The Makefile in the macosx directory is optimized for Aqua and stores its build files in a different location than Unix.

Indeed.

  You might have been reinstalling a prior build of Aqua when you ran make install.
> 

No that's not the case, I didn't perform any installs at all.

I ran "make test" from the build dir (after having ./configure'd from the macosx subdir, and having 
done "make distclean" before that).

It's just that the resulting executables, when configuring from ./macosx, don't work with X, even if 
--disable-aqua is passed.

Erik.
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>> 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:
>> 
>>> ... run configure from the Unix subdirectory.
>> 
>> Hi Kevin,
>> 
>> Thanks for your response.
>> 
>> 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.)
>> 
>> 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].
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Erik.
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