Getting and installing tclmake
The current distribution is not packaged terribly well, and requires things to be done by hand. First, decide where to download the distribution:- Into your Tcl library directory. To see where this
is, start itclsh or tclsh and execute
file dirname [info library]
- Any location. After downloading into, say /users/johnr/stuff, set the environment variable TCLMAKE_LIBRARY to /users/johnr/stuff/tclmake.
- tclmake.tar.gz
- To unpack (on Unix), do:
gzcat tclmake.tar.gz | tar -xf - - tclmake.zip
- To unpack (Windows or Unix), do:
unzip -a tclmake
The default tclmake script starts up itclsh. Although tclmake does not require Itcl to run, I did this in order to ensure that index files are made properly when processing Itcl files. If you do not have itclsh, then change the third line of the script to tclsh or tclsh80 (Windows) instead.
If you are running under Windows NT, you can:
- Install the cygwin32 user tools, and use bash as your shell. In that case, the script tclmake will run. (This somewhat contradicts what I said in the intro page about not having to install more tools -- however, the user tools includes bash and stuff like that, without gcc and the other development tools, and is well worth having!)
- Use MS-DOS as your shell. In that case, copy the botch file
bin/tclmake.bat into a directory in your path and modify it so
that it points to the tclmake script.
In either case, tclsh or tclsh80 must also be in your
path for it to work.
