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Tcl 8.1 for Windows

by Scott Stanton
Scriptics Corporation
[email protected]

RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.1.2.6 1999/03/17 21:29:58 stanton Exp $

1. Introduction
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This is the directory where you configure and compile the Windows
version of Tcl.  This directory also contains source files for Tcl
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Tcl 8.1 for Windows

by Scott Stanton
Scriptics Corporation
[email protected]

RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.1.2.7 1999/03/25 00:31:22 rjohnson Exp $

1. Introduction
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This is the directory where you configure and compile the Windows
version of Tcl.  This directory also contains source files for Tcl
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3. Compiling Tcl
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In order to compile Tcl for Windows, you need the following items:

	Tcl 8.1 Source Distribution (plus any patches)

	Borland C++ 4.52 (both 16-bit and 32-bit compilers)
	  or
	Visual C++ 2.x/4.x/5.x
	Visual C++ 1.5 (to build tcl1680.dll for Win32s support of exec)

In practice, the 8.1.a2 release is built with Visual C++ 5.0

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\tcl8.1 directory under the installation directory
	   as specified in the registry:

		For Windows NT & 95:
		    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scriptics\Tcl\8.1

		For Win32s:
		    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SOFTWARE\Scriptics\Tcl\8.1\

	3) Relative to the directory containing the current .exe.
	    Tcl will look for a directory "..\lib\tcl8.1" relative to the
	    directory containing the currently running .exe.

Note that in order to run tclsh81.exe, you must ensure that tcl81.dll
and tclpip81.dll (plus tcl1681.dll under Win32s) are on your path, in
the system directory, or in the directory containing tclsh81.exe.



4. Building Extensions
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With the Windows compilers you have to worry about how you export symbols
from DLLs.  tcl.h defines a few macros to help solve this problem:
EXTERN - all Tcl_ function prototypes use this macro, which implies








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3. Compiling Tcl
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In order to compile Tcl for Windows, you need the following items:

	Tcl 8.1 Source Distribution (plus any patches)



	Visual C++ 2.x/4.x/5.x


In practice, the 8.1.a2 release is built with Visual C++ 5.0

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\tcl8.1 directory under the installation directory
	   as specified in the registry:


		HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scriptics\Tcl\8.1




	3) Relative to the directory containing the current .exe.
	    Tcl will look for a directory "..\lib\tcl8.1" relative to the
	    directory containing the currently running .exe.

Note that in order to run tclsh81.exe, you must ensure that tcl81.dll
and tclpip81.dll are on your path, in the system directory, or in the 
directory containing tclsh81.exe.

Note: Tcl no longer provides support for Win32s.

4. Building Extensions
----------------------

With the Windows compilers you have to worry about how you export symbols
from DLLs.  tcl.h defines a few macros to help solve this problem:
EXTERN - all Tcl_ function prototypes use this macro, which implies
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