Re: tkined QUESTION

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:41:36 +0200

Peter Yau <pyau@carfax.ims.advantis.com> said:

Peter> I just thought I'd clarify further on my question. Upon
Peter> executing scotty, I get the following prompt:

Peter> initialization failed: dynamic loading is not currently
Peter> available on this system

[snip]

The text from the FAQ (http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/faq/)
says:

> What to do if Tcl does not support dynamic loading on my OS?
>
> The best solution is to find out how to implement dynamic loading on
> your OS and to forward the required changes to the Tcl group at Sun.
> The second option is to write a new Makefile which allows a static
> version of the extensions and to create another wish and tclsh binary
> which includes the static version of the extension. You have to adapt
> the tclAppInit.c and tkAppInit.c files from the Tcl and Tk distribution
> to initialize the extension. This requires some basic knowledge about
> the Tcl internals. Finally, the third option is to change the operating
> system.

I am not aware if someone already made Makefiles for a static version.

Juergen

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