TclX7.5.1

Library, headers and interpreter for the tclX extension to tcl and tk. (7.5 and 4.1 respectively)

Contributed by

Mike Hopkirk (hops)

Obtained from

Ftp: - ftp.neosoft.com:/pub/tcl/tclx-distrib/tclX7.5.1.tar.gz

Author(s)

Karl Lehenbauer (karl@NeoSoft.com) and Mark Diekhans (markd@Grizzly.com)

Restrictions

Freely redistributable as per tcl

Description

Extended Tcl (TclX), is a set of extensions to Tcl 7.5. oriented towards Unix system programming tasks and large application development. Many additional interfaces to the Unix operating system are provided. It is upwardly compatible with Tcl 7.5.

Support is also included for building a Tk 4.1 wish shell (wishx) with the Extended Tcl command set and signal handling.

While this TclX distribution is tested with Tcl 7.5 and Tk 4.1, it will probably work with new versions of Tcl & Tk with little or no changes.

This distribution is modified from the normal distrib for skunkware in that it 'installs' built files into ./dist, puts the tclX and tkX library files in lib within that and (via a script - skunkMake) renames the tclx interpreter to tclx7.5.

When using these binaries the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable will probably have to be set to /usr/skunk/lib or /usr/local/lib to get the corresponding versions of the tclX shared libs rather than the older versions on OS5 in /usr/lib.
See scripts tclx and wishx .

Productivity

Very Useful

Safety

Examined code + Used and extended it

Work Planned

None

Documentation

Some Man Pages, online help pages

Other Info

Tcl Home Page
neosoft Home Page

Build Notes

To build it for a different location, compile with make prefix=directory or reconfigure with ./configure --prefix=directory.

Theres a script that does the make and install for skunkware in ./unix/skunkMake

See also :
The original README file, The original INSTALL file and unix/skunkMake.