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diff --git a/Mac/Demo/building.html b/Mac/Demo/building.html index 23c0086..e1a229e 100644 --- a/Mac/Demo/building.html +++ b/Mac/Demo/building.html @@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ you need: <UL> -<LI> Tcl and Tk can be obtained from <A -HREF="ftp://ftp.smli.com/pub/tcl/mac/">ftp://ftp.smli.com/pub/tcl/mac/</A>. -The current distributions, Tcl 8.0p2 and Tk 8.0p2 need a bit of work, -see the section on <A HREF="#tcltk">building Tcl/Tk Python</A> -below. Get the "full source" distribution, which includes MoreFiles. +<LI> Tcl and Tk are in a sad state on the Mac, the standard source distributions +simply don't compile, so I have created a distribution especially for use +with MacPython. +See the section on <A HREF="#tcltk">building Tcl/Tk Python</A> +below. <LI> Waste, a TextEdit replacement written by Marco Piovanelli, <A HREF="mailto:piovanel@kagi.com"><piovanel@kagi.com></A>. Python @@ -181,24 +181,24 @@ static 68K, CFM68K or PPC you can skip building the other libraries. <H2><A NAME="tcltk">Building Tcl/Tk</H2> -You need to make some minor changes to the Tcl/Tk 8.0 -distribution. You should make the CW Pro projects (in the mac subfolders). -<UL> - -<LI> There are no cfm68k targets. You make these by copying the 68k targets, -setting the "68k target" to "cfm68k library" and changing the output filename, -and changing the prefix -header filename in the C/C++ settings panel to "MW_???HeaderCFM68K". - -<LI> I had to add Search.c (from MoreFiles) to the tcl library projects. I don't -understand why this is, but it seemed to cure the problems I had. +The Tcl/Tk 8.3.0 source distribution does not work on the Mac. I have created +an archive of the sources that I used to build _tkinter for MacPython, +you can obtain this from <a +href="ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/python/mac/tcltk830src-for-python.sit"> +ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/jack/python/mac/tcltk830src-for-python.sit</a>. Only the +libraries needed to build _tkinter for PPC have been fixed. <P> -<LI> Note that if you use a different release of Tcl and Tk than the ones +Note that if you use a different release of Tcl and Tk than the ones I have used you may have to adapt the Python <code>tkresources.rsrc</code> file. This is easiest done by building <code>SimpleTk</code> and copying the TEXT, ICON and CRSR resources from it to <code>tkresources.rsrc</code>. This allows the <code>_tkinter</code> module to work without an installed Tk/Tcl on your -machine. +machine. <P> + +Also note that the <code>_tkinter.ppc.slb</code> that is normally distributed +in the <code>PlugIns</code> folder is the one from the Imaging extension, +which has some extra features needed by PIL (and which features should not +hinder normal operation). </UL> @@ -455,6 +455,11 @@ also set (in the "binary files" section) "use mac encoding: applesingle" and (in the "text files" section) "use ISO latin 1 conversion". <p> +It is also a good idea to disable Quicktime Exchange in the Quicktime +control panel. Quicktime Exchange will magically map some extensions to +filetypes, and this can seriously hinder you if, for instance, <code>.bmp</code> +is not a Windows bitmap file. <p> + The machine-independent Python sources are checked out from the main Python CVS archive, see the <a href="http://www.python.org/download/cvs.html">Source access via |