Re: [Gcl-devel] tkconnect on MS Windows

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  I'm afraid our windows port has grown quite out of date,
mostly due to the lack of a (remote) development machine.  I use Linux.
I believe the tk demo works as advertised in the latest GCL
Debian/Ubuntu package.  Please try it out and let me know if problems
persist.  If you would like to try your hand at compiling the latest
sources, please let me know and I will try to guide you.

Take care,

"Bryan A. Bentz" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been trying to get GCL-2.6.2-ANSI to talk to tk on a Windows 8.1 (64 
> bit) machine. The TK/TCL package I'm using is from ActiveTCL.
>
> I tried following the instructions in gcl-tk.pdf; (in-package "TK") works 
> fine, but the next step, (tkconnect), gives me an error: apparently there is 
> no system::tkl file with extension either .o, .lsp, or .lisp. The directories 
> searched
> look like they're all in the GCL install directory or 
> "C:/lang/source/gcl...", which doesn't exist.
>
> A thorough search shows no such file on my system, either in the GCL 
> directory or in the ActiveTCL directory (I searched the entire C: drive). So 
> I don't think it's a PATH issue.
>
> I must be missing some step. I'm using the prebuilt GCL binary, so perhaps 
> that's the root of the issue. There seems to be no part of the GCL directory 
> structure that might let me build the missing file. Perhaps trying to build 
> GCL from
> scratch, with the appropriate options/paths chosen, would fix this; before I 
> go that route, does this problem ring any bells? Is there some face-palm 
> solution I'm missing? I searched the archives but found no mention of this 
> problem. I
> tried the 2.6.7.mingw32 version, which had the same problem.
>
> BTW, my goal is to be able to build some simple forms/graphics with TK that 
> might then be portable to other OSes. I've gone the X Windows route in the 
> past, but my target audience is entirely Windows people. Nevertheless, if 
> that's what
> makes the most sense I can try to get some form of X Windows running on the 
> PC; pretty sure I've done that in that past, but it's been a while.
>
> Bryan Bentz
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