compile tk8.6.0 for X11 on OSX

[Eckhard Lehmann]

Hello,

I experience some problems with Tk8.6.0, when I try to compile it for
X11 on Mac OSX 10.7.
Installed is Xquartz 2.7.4 and also some X11 from macports (which
shouldn't conflict I think). Previously I also installed an ActiveTcl
8.6 and 8.5. I run make as advertised in the README, but I changed
--enable-xft to --disable-xft in the GNUMakefile, because it raised some
linking errors.

$ ls
...
...
tk8.6.0

$ make -C tk8.6.0/macosx TK_X11=1
$ sudo make -C tk8.6.0/macosx install TK_X11=1

That works, but I cannot run it afterwards:

$ which wish-X11
/usr/local/bin/wish-X11
$ wish-X11
dyld: Library not loaded:
/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.6-X11:/usr/X11R6/lib/Tk
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wish8.6-X11
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

All that on the Terminal.app and on xterm inside Xquartz.

Has somebody experienced this already and has an idea where the error
might be?

Thanks in advance

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Eckhard

[Donal K. Fellows]

On 17/06/2013 20:13, Eckhard Lehmann wrote:
> I experience some problems with Tk8.6.0, when I try to compile it for
> X11 on Mac OSX 10.7.
> Installed is Xquartz 2.7.4 and also some X11 from macports (which
> shouldn't conflict I think). Previously I also installed an ActiveTcl
> 8.6 and 8.5. I run make as advertised in the README, but I changed
> --enable-xft to --disable-xft in the GNUMakefile, because it raised some
> linking errors.

I think it's easier to just use the configure/Makefile in the unix
directory in that case. Or at least that's what I do and it doesn't seem
to have any significant problems (on an ancient OSX 10.5). You might
need to add extra options to configure (e.g., --with-x=/path/to/X11);
I've not experimented as the defaults worked for me.

Donal.
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Donal Fellows — Tcl user, Tcl maintainer, TIP editor.

[Eckhard Lehmann]

Am 17.06.13 20:33, schrieb Donal K. Fellows:

> I think it's easier to just use the configure/Makefile in the unix

It seems (and is documented) that the GNUMakefile does that, its just a
wrapper around the unix/ ./configure && make etc.
Actually I thought that I can use the Wish.app afterwards to start my
application in X11, so I tried to overwrite the ActiveState installation
with a Wish that is running with X11.

The reason for all that is, that Aqua TK is horrible slow compared to
X11 Tk...

> directory in that case. Or at least that's what I do and it doesn't seem
> to have any significant problems (on an ancient OSX 10.5). You might
> need to add extra options to configure (e.g., --with-x=/path/to/X11);
> I've not experimented as the defaults worked for me.

If only I knew where the /path/to/X11 is... ;). On former versions 10.4,
10.5 and 10.6 it worked for me as well out of the box.


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Eckhard