Re: [Tile-dev] Building Tile for ActiveTcl

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Techentin, Robert W.  wrote:

> 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.

An alternate approach: compile with "-DNO_PRIVATE_HEADERS"
and link against libtk8.4.so (as well as libtkstub8.4.a).
The build system in the "generic" subdirectory does this by 
default, or just hack the Makefile by hand.

This _might_ not work on HP-UX, since dynamic linking
reportedly works differently there, but it's worked for me
on all the platforms I've tried.

> 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.


This is bug #695441 "tcl_findLibrary does not look in $::auto_path".
Probably the best way to fix it is to hack pkgIndex.tcl to
set $::tile_library before loading the extension:

|package ifneeded tile 0.5 \
|    "set ::tile_library $dir ; load [file join $dir tile[info sharedlibext]]]"


I might just set things up to always do this
(OTOH, that'll break other stuff, so maybe not...)

Alternately, you can set the environment variable
$TILE_LIBRARY to point to the install directory.



--Joe English

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