[MACTCL] Re: Building tcl/tk 8.4 aqua

[Daniel A. S. <da...@us...>]

Russell,

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 04:27 AM, Russell E Owen wrote:

> Might you have a link for instructions for building tcl/tk 8.4.1 aqua  
> for MacOS X? The unix distribution includes a maxosx directory but no  
> readme file or other instructions in it (at least that I've been able  
> to find) and when I tried to run the files there for version 8.4 I ran  
> into trouble (tcl seemed to build OK but I suspect it was an illusion,  
> as Tk couldn't find any of the tcl files).
>
> I have done been searching, though apparently not hard enough. I  
> looked at your site and found instructions for duplicating the Apple  
> non-aqua build and pointers to 8.3.x binaries. I've also looked  
> through the recent Mac mailing list archive and see you have  
> preliminary batteries included binaries, which sounds promising, and  
> have submitted an enhancement request for such a readme file.
>

there should be a tk/macosx/README file in your 8.4.1 archive,  
otherwise you can get it directly from
	http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/tktoolkit/tk/macosx/ 
README

hope that gets you going, otherwise get back to me (or better, the  
tcl-mac mailing list)

> (For what it's worth, I'm attempting to perform a basic installation,  
> as I use Tk via Python and it's "Tkinter" interface library.)

I'm not sure Tkinter is setup to work with the new framework build of  
Tcl and Tk, unfortunately I have zero knowledge about all things  
Python...

if needed, instead of the TkAqua port you should be able to build the  
standard unix X11 version of tk without trouble by essentially  
following my instructions for building tcl 8.3.x.

Cheers,

Daniel

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