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lvirden | 3 Mar 16:15

Are the sources for building the original tclkit interpreter still available online?


I am looking at the wubwiki starkit. It requires Tcl 8.5 and Itcl.
This means that kbs and tclkit-lite are not going to be able to be
used with it. So I have to try, once again, to see if I can convince
tclkit to build on sparc solaris.

Where can I find the source for building the original style tclkit?

I looked at the equi4.com web page for tclkit, but I don't see a
pointer to the sources any longer.

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Pat Thoyts | 4 Mar 02:48

Re: Are the sources for building the original tclkit interpreter still available online?

On 03/03/2008, lvirden <lvirden <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I am looking at the wubwiki starkit. It requires Tcl 8.5 and Itcl.
>  This means that kbs and tclkit-lite are not going to be able to be
>  used with it. So I have to try, once again, to see if I can convince
>  tclkit to build on sparc solaris.
>
>  Where can I find the source for building the original style tclkit?
>
>  I looked at the equi4.com web page for tclkit, but I don't see a
>  pointer to the sources any longer.

You can use the current kitgen stuff to build old-style tclkits (ie
ones containing incr-tcl and using mk4tcl). I;ve used this to build on
solaris 10.

IMO kitgen is rather easier to use than genkit as it mostly just calls
the various projects TEA makefiles.

Pat Thoyts

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lvirden | 4 Mar 13:43

Re: Are the sources for building the original tclkit interpreter still available online?

On Mar 3, 8:48 pm, "Pat Thoyts" <pattho...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/2008, lvirden <lvir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Where can I find the source for building the original style tclkit?
>
> You can use the current kitgen stuff to build old-style tclkits (ie
> ones containing incr-tcl and using mk4tcl). I;ve used this to build on
> solaris 10.

For future reference, see http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/tars/ (which was
a tough address to find for me for some reason).

>
> IMO kitgen is rather easier to use than genkit as it mostly just calls
> the various projects TEA makefiles.

My problem with kitgen is that its doc says it is used to build tclkit-
lite . I don't see anything in the README about building an original
tclkit.

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lvirden | 4 Mar 14:10

Re: Are the sources for building the original tclkit interpreter still available online?


So, I decided to go ahead and try making kitgen, using the "large"
target (figuring that might be different than lite).

So after reading the README, I typed:

gmake tars

The first thing I ran into (in case someone else trys this on Solaris)
is that kitgen's makefile uses "tar xfz". If that fails for you,
change your path so that the GNU tar comes first, so that the files
can be extracted.

Another note for people using kitgen, each time the gmake tars fails,
you need to delete all the directories so they can be recreated.

Next problem - the gmake large attemps to build the Thread extension -
but it isn't one of the ones downloaded from the web site. You need to
get that yourself and put it into the 8.x directory. When I realized
this, I decided to look for itcl or incrtcl, to be certain that it is
built.

kitgen doesn't build it.

So, I'm back where I was at the beginning. It doesn't look like kitgen
will create an original tclkit. On the other hand, this exchange did
allow me to rediscover the directory where the genkit script is
located. Now to see if I can get it to run.

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Jean-Claude Wippler | 12 Mar 22:42

Re: Are the sources for building the original tclkit interpreter still available online?

On 4 Mar 2008, at 13:43, lvirden wrote:
> For future reference, see http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/tars/ (which was
> a tough address to find for me for some reason).

I'm sorry about that, a bunch of links appear to have fallen between  
the cracks during my conversion to the new www.equi4.com website. I've  
added a link to a page on an old equi4 wiki to the Tclkit  
Documentation page, see
	http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/docs.html
	http://www.equi4.com/wikis/equi4/218

I now realize that the wiki snapshots at http://www.equi4.com/wikis/  
no longer have a good search capability, since they are static pages  
now. They should be indexed by Google, though (that;s how I found that  
page 218).

Perhaps the best thing to do is to add comments to the Tcler's Wiki at http://wiki.tcl.tk/52 
  so others can find the pages as well. Meanwhile, I'll try to come up  
with a better way to get at what's on the www.equi4.com website. Apart  
from the static wiki snapshots, most page links are still intact, the  
web site structure has not changed one bit.

-jcw