This page provides a "how to" guide to building extensions
that work with the TclPro binary distributions.
Do a full install of TclPro including sources into, for example,
/home/welch/TclPro1.3
To compile anything, there needs to be a "tclConfig.sh" that is a by-product
of building Tcl itself. Because this file captures some of the local
environment, we cannot ship it because our settings might be wrong. The
customer has to generate this file, which happens automatically by running
the "configure" script in the src/tcl8.2/unix directory.
They must run configure with a --prefix (the install directory) and a
--exec-prefix (the install binary directory) setting to match their
TclPro installation. I've just done:
cd ~/TclPro1.3/tcl8.2/unix
sh configure --enable-gcc --prefix=/home/welch/TclPro1.3 \
--exec-prefix=/home/welch/TclPro1.3/solaris-sparc
cd ~/TclPro1.3/tk8.2/unix
sh configure --enable-gcc --prefix=/home/welch/TclPro1.3 \
--exec-prefix=/home/welch/TclPro1.3/solaris-sparc \
--with-tcl=/home/welchTclPro1.3/src/tcl8.3/unix/solaris-sparc
Unpack BLT into the TclPro src directory
cd ~/TclPro1.3/src
gunzip < ~/download/BLT2.4m.tar.gz
cd blt2.4m
mkdir solaris-sparc (there is no unix subdir for BLT)
cd solaris-sparc
sh ../configure --enable-gcc --prefix=/home/welch/TclPro1.3 \
--exec-prefix=/home/welch/TclPro1.3/solaris-sparc \
--with-tcl=/home/welch/TclPro1.3/src/tcl8.2/unix/solaris-sparc \
--with-tk=/home/welch/TclPro1.3/src/tk8.2/unix/solaris-sparc
Then need to fix the generated Makefile and shared/Makefile because
it isn't using --exec-prefix right. Fix the -L path to list
/home/welch/TclPro1.3/solaris-sparc/lib
instead of
/home/welch/TclPro1.3/lib
Then the install didn't create a pkgIndex.tcl file,
and the Makefile in the library directory didn't install a
useful one.
We ended up editting the one in
/home/welch/TclPro1.3/solaris-sparc/lib
to add
package ifneeded BLT 2.4 \
[list load [file join $dir libBLT24[info sharedlibextension]] BLT]
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