Tcl MacOSX README ----------------- RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.1.2.2 2005/04/09 15:39:23 das Exp $ This is the README file for the Mac OS X native version of Tcl (framework build). 1. General ---------- - The tcl-mac mailing list on sourceforge is the canonical place for 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, but also check the Tcl'ers Wiki for a wealth of information: http://wiki.tcl.tk/ - The wiki has a page listing known bugs in Mac OS X Tcl/Tk (and other tips) http://wiki.tcl.tk/MacOS%20X as well as a page with info on building Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X http://wiki.tcl.tk/Steps%20to%20build%20Tcl/Tk%208.4.0%20on%20MacOS%20X - You should report bugs to the sourceforge bug trackers as usual: Tcl: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=10894&atid=110894 Tk: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=12997&atid=112997 please make sure that your report Tk specific bugs to the tktoolkit bug tracker and not the tcl one. 2. Using Tcl on MacOSX ---------------------- - Mac OS X 10.2 (or higher) is required to run Tcl on MacOSX. - Tcl built on Mac OS X 10.3 or higher will not run on 10.2 due to missing symbols in libSystem, however Tcl built on 10.2 will run on 10.3 (but without prebinding and other optimizations). - Tcl extensions will be found in any of: $HOME/Library/Tcl /Library/Tcl /Network/Library/Tcl /System/Library/Tcl $HOME/Library/Frameworks /Library/Frameworks /Network/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. - The Tcl framework contains documentation in html format in the standard location for frameworks: Tcl.framework/Resources/Documentation/Reference/Tcl No manpages are installed by default. - the framework Tcl.framework can be placed in any of the system's standard framework directories: $HOME/Library/Frameworks /Library/Frameworks /Network/Library/Frameworks /System/Library/Frameworks and /usr/bin/tclsh will work. - the format of binary extensions expected by [load] is that of ordinary shared libraries (.dylib) and not MachO bundles, at present loading of MachO bundles is not supported. 3. Building Tcl.framework ------------------------- - Mac OS X 10.2 (or higher) is required to build Tcl on MacOSX. - Apple's Developer Tools CD needs to be installed (the most recent version matching your OS release, but no earlier than December 2002). This CD should have come with Mac OS X retail or should be present as a disk image on new macs that came with OSX preinstalled. It can also be downloaded from http://connect.apple.com (after you register for free ADC membership). - Tcl is built as a Mac OS X framework via the Makefile in tcl/macosx, but can also be built from Apple's ProjectBuilder IDE using the Tcl.pbproj project (which calls through to the Makefile). - Unpack the tcl source release archive. - The following instructions assume the tcl source tree is named "tcl${ver}", where ${ver} is a shell variable containing the tcl version number (for example '8.4.2'). Setup the shell variable as follows: set ver="8.4.2" ;: if your shell is csh ver="8.4.2" ;: if your shell is sh The source tree will be named this way only if you are building from a release archive, if you are building from CVS, the version numbers will be missing; so set ${ver} to the empty string instead: set ver="" ;: if your shell is csh ver="" ;: if your shell is sh - If you're only interested in _building_ Tcl.framework and don't plan on doing development with the ProjectBuilder projects, using the Makefile is easiest. The following steps will build Tcl from the Terminal, assuming you are located in the directory containing the tcl source tree: make -C tcl${ver}/macosx and the following will then install Tcl onto the root volume (admin password required): sudo make -C tcl${ver}/macosx install if you don't have the admin password, you can install into your home directory, instead by passing an INSTALL_ROOT argument to make: make -C tcl${ver}/macosx install INSTALL_ROOT="${HOME}/" - The default Makefile targets will build _both_ debug and optimized versions of the Tcl framework with the standard convention of naming the debug library Tcl.framework/Tcl_debug. This allows you to dynamically link to the debug libraries at runtime by setting setenv DYLD_IMAGE_SUFFIX _debug (c.f. man dyld for more details) If you only want to build and install the debug or optimized build, use the 'develop' or 'deploy' target variants of the Makefiles, respectively. For example, to build and install only the optimized versions: make -C tcl${ver}/macosx deploy sudo make -C tcl${ver}/macosx install-deploy