RE: [tcltk-perl] packaging Tcl::Tk and Tcl/Tk files within Perl installation

[Jeff H. <je...@Ac...>]

Vadim wrote:
> I developed small Perl script that aims in Tcl/Tk build 
> process for creation of Tcl/Tk being used from Perl's Tcl::Tk 
> modules only.

> However following currently works:
> 
>  - after Tcl, Tk, trf, memchan, vfs built, they could be linked with
>    Tcl.xs we get single Tcl.dll, (otherwise Perl's Tcl.dll calls
>    Tcl/Tk's tcl84.dll and tk84.dll)
>  - "tcl-scripts.zip" created during build
>  - all related *.tcl scripts being used from "tcl-scripts.zip" archive
>    directly using Tcl's vfs::zip vrtual FS.

This is interesting.  We (ActiveState) have done something
similar for our own purposes.  We did this by basing the
work on starpacks as dlls.  You will see some of the code
that I commited to Tcl.xs to support this.

The Tcl-side of that is proprietary, as it is a part of the
Tcl Dev Kit, but we posted all the basic coding bits for it
to the starkit mailing list during development for others
to consider.  We will likely use this same approach for the
Tcl web browser plugin.

  Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
  http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos