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- Tk 4.1 for Windows
-
- by Scott Stanton
- Sun Microsystems Laboratories
- scott.stanton@eng.sun.com
-
- SCCS: @(#) README 1.11 96/04/12 16:41:48
-
- 1. Introduction
- ---------------
-
- This is the directory where you configure and compile the Windows
- version of Tk. This directory also contains source files for Tk
- that are specific to Microsoft Windows. The rest of this file
- contains information specific to the Windows version of Tk.
-
- 2. Distribution notes
- ---------------------
-
- Tk 4.1 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 Tk
- ----------------
-
- In order to compile Tk for Windows, you need the following items:
-
- Tcl 7.5 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
- Tk 4.1 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
-
- The latest Win32 SDK header files
-
- Borland C++ 4.5/5.0 (32-bit compiler)
- or
- Visual C++ 2.x/4.0
-
-
- 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 tk libraries and the wish
- executable.
-
- In order to use the binaries generated by these makefiles, you will
- need to place the Tk script library files someplace where Tk can
- find them. Tk looks in one of two places for the library files:
-
- 1) The environment variable "TK_LIBRARY".
- 2) Relative to the directory containing the Tk DLL.
- Tk will look for a directory "..\lib\tk4.1" relative to the
- directory containing the tk41.dll loaded by the currently running
- application.
-
- Note that in order to run wish41.exe, you must ensure that tcl75.dll
- (and tcl1675.dll under Win32s), tk41.dll are on your path, or in the
- directory containing wish41.exe.
-
- 4. Test suite
- -------------
-
- The Windows version of Tk does not pass many of the tests in the test
- suite. This is primarily due to dependencies in the test suite on the
- size of particular X fonts, and other X related features. We will be
- working to develop a more general test suite for Tk under Windows, but
- for now, you will not be able to pass many of the tests.
-
- 5. Known Bugs
- -------------
-
- Here is the current list of known bugs/missing features for the
- Windows beta version of Tk:
-
- - There is no support for custom cursors/application icons.
- - Stippling of arcs isn't implemented yet.
- - Some "wm" functions don't map to Windows and aren't implemented.
- - There is no support for the option database yet.
- - Under Win32s, you can only start one instance of Wish at a time.
- - Traversing the items in a menubar causes the titlebar of the window
- to flash.
- - Color management on some displays doesn't work properly resulting in
- Tk switching to monochrome mode.
- - Send and winfo interps are not currently supported
-
- If you have comments or bug reports for the Windows version of Tk,
- please direct them to:
-
- Scott Stanton
- scott.stanton@eng.sun.com
-
- or post them to the newsgroup comp.lang.tcl.
-