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- Tcl 8.0b2 for Windows
-
- by Scott Stanton
- Sun Microsystems Laboratories
- scott.stanton@eng.sun.com
-
- SCCS: @(#) README 1.23 97/08/13 18:54:48
-
- 1. Introduction
- ---------------
-
- This is the directory where you configure and compile the Windows
- version of Tcl. This directory also contains source files for Tcl
- that are specific to Microsoft Windows. The rest of this file
- contains information specific to the Windows version of Tcl.
-
- 2. Distribution notes
- ---------------------
-
- Tcl 8.0 for Windows is distributed in binary form in addition to the
- common source release. The binary distribution is a self-extracting
- archive with a built-in installation script.
-
- Look for the binary release in the same location as the source release
- (ftp.smli.com:/pub/tcl or any of the mirror sites). For most users,
- the binary release will be much easier to install and use. You only
- need the source release if you plan to modify the core of Tcl, or if
- you need to compile with a different compiler. With the addition of
- the dynamic loading interface, it is no longer necessary to have the
- source distribution in order to build and use extensions.
-
- 3. Compiling Tcl
- ----------------
-
- In order to compile Tcl for Windows, you need the following items:
-
- Tcl 8.0 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
-
- Borland C++ 4.52 (both 16-bit and 32-bit compilers)
- or
- Visual C++ 2.x/4.x
- Visual C++ 1.5 (to build tcl1680.dll for Win32s support of exec)
-
- In the "win" subdirectory of the source release, you will find two
- files called "makefile.bc" and "makefile.vc". These are the makefiles
- for the Borland and Visual C++ compilers respectively. You should
- copy the appropriate one to "makefile" and update the paths at the
- top of the file to reflect your system configuration. Now you can use
- "make" (or "nmake" for VC++) to build the tcl libraries and the tclsh
- executable.
-
- In order to use the binaries generated by these makefiles, you will
- need to place the Tcl script library files someplace where Tcl can
- find them. Tcl looks in one of three places for the library files:
-
- 1) The path specified in the environment variable "TCL_LIBRARY".
-
- 2) In the lib\tcl8.0 directory under the installation directory
- as specified in the registry:
-
- For Windows NT & 95:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sun\Tcl\8.0
- Value Name is "Root"
-
- For Win32s:
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SOFTWARE\Sun\Tcl\8.0\
-
- 3) Relative to the directory containing the current .exe.
- Tcl will look for a directory "..\lib\tcl8.0" relative to the
- directory containing the currently running .exe.
-
- Note that in order to run tclsh80.exe, you must ensure that tcl80.dll
- and tclpip80.dll (plus tcl1680.dll under Win32s) are on your path, in
- the system directory, or in the directory containing tclsh80.exe.
-
- 4. Test suite
- -------------
-
- This distribution contains an extensive test suite for Tcl. Some of
- the tests are timing dependent and will fail from time to time. If a
- test is failing consistently, please send us a bug report with as much
- detail as you can manage.
-
- In order to run the test suite, you build the "test" target using the
- appropriate makefile for your compiler.
-
-
- 5. Known Bugs
- -------------
-
- Here is the current list of known bugs/missing features for the
- Windows version of Tcl:
-
- - Solstice NFS interacts badly with Tcl, files linger after close
- - Sockets have been known to hang during high load. There are still
- some unresolved problems in the socket code where close events may
- get lost.
- - Blocking "after" commands (e.g. "after 3000") don't work on Win32s.
- - Clock command fails to handle daylight savings time boundaries for
- things like "last week".
- - Background processes aren't properly detached on NT.
- - File events only work on sockets.
- - Pipes/files/console/serial ports don't support nonblocking I/O.
- - The library cannot be used by two processes at the same time under
- Win32s.
-
- If you have comments or bug reports for the Windows version of Tcl,
- please direct them to:
-
- Scott Stanton
- scott.stanton@eng.sun.com
-
- or post them to the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup.
-