[Tile-dev] Building Tile for ActiveTcl

[Techentin, R. W. <tec...@ma...>]

I'd like to start using Tile widgets in my new applications.  (The Tcl
Conference got me all excited!)  We're presently running ActiveTcl
8.4.6.something, which includes tile0.3.  I easily downloaded and installed
tile0.4 for Windows.  But I'm having a little trouble getting it built for
Unix.

Like many Unix users, I've got a sysadmin down the hall who takes care of
hundreds of systems.  I was able to get ActiveTcl installed for HP-UX and
Linux, but its installed by root, and I don't have access.  (Which is
probably a good thing.)

I tried to compile tile with --with-tcl and --with-tk pointing to the
ActiveTcl installation, and it didn't work because tkInt.h just isn't there.
No problem, because I can download and build Tcl, Tk, and Tile all in
parallel, just like you're supposed to do.  But once I've created the
tile0.5 library and added it to my auto_path, I cannot use it from
ActiveTcl.  It complains that it can't find a usable tile.tcl, starting in
ActiveTcl's lib directory, and then moving on to /usr/lib and /lib.  It
appears that tile0.5 wants to be in the same library directory as tcl8.4 and
tk8.4.

Is there a way to build tile for ActiveTcl (or against ActiveTcl, for that
matter)?  Or do I have to make a sysadmin request to get a library installed
in the system directories?

Thanks,
Bob
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