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Where to go for support +-------------------------- + +- The tcl-mac mailing list on sourceforge is the best place to ask questions +specific to Tcl & Tk on Mac OS X: + http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcl-mac +(this page also has a link to searchable archives of the list, please check them +before asking on the list, many questions have already been answered). + +- For general Tcl/Tk questions, the newsgroup comp.lang.tcl is your best bet: + http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/ + +- The Tcl'ers Wiki also has many pages dealing with Tcl & Tk on Mac OS X, see + http://wiki.tcl.tk/_/ref?N=3753 + http://wiki.tcl.tk/_/ref?N=8361 + +- Please report bugs with Tcl on Mac OS X to the tracker: + http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/reportlist + +2. Using Tcl on Mac OS X +------------------------ + +- At a minimum, Mac OS X 10.3 is required to run Tcl. + +- Unless weak-linking is used, Tcl built on Mac OS X 10.x will not run on 10.y +with y < x; on the other hand Tcl built on 10.y will always run on 10.x with +y <= x (but without any of the fixes and optimizations that would be available +in a binary built on 10.x). +Weak-linking is available on OS X 10.2 or later, it additionally allows Tcl +built on 10.x to run on any 10.y with x > y >= z (for a chosen z >= 2). + +- Tcl extensions can be installed in any of: + $HOME/Library/Tcl /Library/Tcl /System/Library/Tcl + $HOME/Library/Frameworks /Library/Frameworks /System/Library/Frameworks + (searched in that order). +Given a potential package directory $pkg, Tcl on OSX checks for the file +$pkg/Resources/Scripts/pkgIndex.tcl as well as the usual $pkg/pkgIndex.tcl. +This allows building extensions as frameworks with all script files contained in +the Resources/Scripts directory of the framework. + +- [load]able binary extensions can linked as either ordinary shared libraries +(.dylib) or as MachO bundles (since 8.4.10/8.5a3); bundles have the advantage +that they are [load]ed more efficiently from a tcl VFS (no temporary copy to the +native filesystem required), and prior to Mac OS X 10.5, only bundles can be +[unload]ed. + +- The 'deploy' target of macosx/GNUmakefile installs the html manpages into the +standard documentation location in the Tcl framework: + Tcl.framework/Resources/Documentation/Reference/Tcl +No nroff manpages are installed by default by the GNUmakefile. + +- The Tcl framework can be installed in any of the system's standard +framework directories: + $HOME/Library/Frameworks /Library/Frameworks /System/Library/Frameworks + + +3. Building Tcl on Mac OS X +--------------------------- + +- At least Mac OS X 10.3 is required to build Tcl. +Apple's Xcode Developer Tools need to be installed (only the most recent version +matching your OS release is supported), the Xcode installer is available on Mac +OS X install media or may be present in /Applications/Installers on Macs that +came with OS X preinstalled. The most recent version can always be downloaded +from the ADC website http://connect.apple.com (free ADC membership required). + +- Tcl is most easily built as a Mac OS X framework via GNUmakefile in tcl/macosx +(see below for details), but can also be built with the standard unix configure +and make buildsystem in tcl/unix as on any other unix platform (indeed, the +GNUmakefile is just a wrapper around the unix buildsystem). +The Mac OS X specific configure flags are --enable-framework and +--disable-corefoundation (which disables CF and notably reverts to the standard +select based notifier). + +- It is also possible to build with the Xcode IDE via the projects in +tcl/macosx, take care to use the project matching your DevTools and OS version: + Tcl.xcode: for Xcode 3.1 on 10.5 + Tcl.xcodeproj: for Xcode 3.2 on 10.6 +These have the following targets: + Tcl: calls through to tcl/macosx/GNUMakefile. + tcltest: static build of tcltest for debugging. + tests: build tcltest target and run tcl testsuite. +The following build configurations are available: + Debug: debug build for the active architecture, + with Fix & Continue enabled. + Debug clang: use clang compiler. + Debug llvm-gcc: use llvm-gcc compiler. + Debug gcc40: use gcc 4.0 compiler. + DebugNoFixAndContinue: disable Fix & Continue. + DebugUnthreaded: disable threading. + DebugNoCF: disable corefoundation. + DebugNoCFUnthreaded: disable corefoundation an threading. + DebugMemCompile: enable memory and bytecode debugging. + DebugLeaks: define PURIFY. + DebugGCov: enable generation of gcov data files. + Debug64bit: configure with --enable-64bit (requires + building on a 64bit capable processor). + Release: release build for the active architecture. + ReleaseUniversal: 32/64-bit universal build. + ReleaseUniversal clang: use clang compiler. + ReleaseUniversal llvm-gcc: use llvm-gcc compiler. + ReleaseUniversal gcc40: use gcc 4.0 compiler. + ReleaseUniversal10.5SDK: build against the 10.5 SDK (with 10.5 + deployment target). + Note that the non-SDK configurations have their deployment target set to + 10.5 (Tcl.xcode) resp. 10.6 (Tcl.xcodeproj). +The Xcode projects refer to the toplevel tcl source directory via the +TCL_SRCROOT user build setting, by default this is set to the project-relative +path '../../tcl', if your tcl source directory is named differently, e.g. +'../../tcl8.6', you need to manually change the TCL_SRCROOT setting by editing +your ${USER}.pbxuser file (located inside the Tcl.xcodeproj bundle directory) +with a text editor. + +- To build universal binaries outside of the Xcode IDE, set CFLAGS as follows: + export CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc" +This requires Mac OS X 10.4 and Xcode 2.4 (or Xcode 2.2 if -arch x86_64 is +omitted, but _not_ Xcode 2.1) and will work on any architecture (on PowerPC +Tiger you need to add "-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk"). +Note that configure requires CFLAGS to contain a least one architecture that can +be run on the build machine (i.e. ppc on G3/G4, ppc or ppc64 on G5, ppc or i386 +on Core and ppc, i386 or x86_64 on Core2/Xeon). +Universal builds of Tcl TEA extensions are also possible with CFLAGS set as +above, they will be [load]able by universal as well as thin binaries of Tcl. + +- To enable weak-linking, set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable +to the minimal OS version the binaries should be able to run on, e.g: + export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 +This requires at least gcc 3.1; with gcc 4 or later, set/add to CFLAGS instead: + export CFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=10.4" +Support for weak-linking was added with 8.4.14/8.5a5. + +Detailed Instructions for building with macosx/GNUmakefile +---------------------------------------------------------- + +- Unpack the Tcl source release archive. + +- The following instructions assume the Tcl source tree is named "tcl${ver}", +(where ${ver} is a shell variable containing the Tcl version number e.g. '8.6'). +Setup this shell variable as follows: + ver="8.6" +If you are building from CVS, omit this step (CVS source tree names usually do +not contain a version number). + +- Setup environment variables as desired, e.g. for a universal build on 10.5: + CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5" + export CFLAGS + +- Change to the directory containing the Tcl source tree and build: + make -C tcl${ver}/macosx + +- Install Tcl onto the root volume (admin password required): + sudo make -C tcl${ver}/macosx install +if you don't have an admin password, you can install into your home directory +instead by passing an INSTALL_ROOT argument to make: + make -C tcl${ver}/macosx install INSTALL_ROOT="${HOME}/" + +- The default GNUmakefile targets will build _both_ debug and optimized versions +of the Tcl framework with the standard convention of naming the debug library +Tcl.framework/Tcl_debug. +This allows switching to the debug libraries at runtime by setting + export DYLD_IMAGE_SUFFIX=_debug +(c.f. man dyld for more details) + +If you only want to build and install the debug or optimized build, use the +'develop' or 'deploy' target variants of the GNUmakefile, respectively. +For example, to build and install only the optimized versions: + make -C tcl${ver}/macosx deploy + sudo make -C tcl${ver}/macosx install-deploy |