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cellist

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May 17, 2012, 7:26:30 PM5/17/12
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I've developed a windows application written in perl that is installed
as an executable with the perl interpreter embedded in the executable.
It is assumed that the PERL INTERPRETER IS NOT INSTALLED on the target
system.I want to create an executable from a simple (I hope!) tcl
program that will display a form to collect configuration data from
the user during the installation of the tcl program. Is it possible to
do this without tcl/tk installed at the target site?

I've installed the activstate distribution of tcl. I'm a beginner at
tcl. I don't have the tcl dev kit.

TIA,
Phil

Gerald W. Lester

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May 17, 2012, 9:03:05 PM5/17/12
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Well the Tcl Dev kit will do it for you and make your code unreadable also
if you want it to.

Other than that, I'd recommend putting it into a starpack (look at
wiki.tcl.tk/starpack and follow the links -- or goolge starpack).

There is also FreeWrap, but I've never used it.


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Les Cargill

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May 17, 2012, 9:22:51 PM5/17/12
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Gerald W. Lester wrote:
> On 5/17/12 6:26 PM, cellist wrote:
>> I've developed a windows application written in perl that is installed
>> as an executable with the perl interpreter embedded in the executable.
>> It is assumed that the PERL INTERPRETER IS NOT INSTALLED on the target
>> system.I want to create an executable from a simple (I hope!) tcl
>> program that will display a form to collect configuration data from
>> the user during the installation of the tcl program. Is it possible to
>> do this without tcl/tk installed at the target site?
>>
>> I've installed the activstate distribution of tcl. I'm a beginner at
>> tcl. I don't have the tcl dev kit.
>
> Well the Tcl Dev kit will do it for you and make your code unreadable
> also if you want it to.
>
> Other than that, I'd recommend putting it into a starpack (look at
> wiki.tcl.tk/starpack and follow the links -- or goolge starpack).
>
> There is also FreeWrap, but I've never used it.
>
>

Freewrap works great. I've never actually followed through
with a star kit.

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Robert Heller

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May 17, 2012, 10:29:23 PM5/17/12
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What you want is a starkit. You need a tclkit for each of your targets
and sdx.kit, which contains the program to create a starkit from a Tcl
file.

Start here:

http://equi4.com/starkit/started.html

More search results here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=starkit+tclkit+sdx



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> TIA,
> Phil
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May 19, 2012, 4:32:02 AM5/19/12
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> . Is it possible to
> do this without tcl/tk installed at the target site?
>
> I've installed the activstate distribution of tcl. I'm a beginner at
> tcl. I don't have the tcl dev kit.
>

You can also try MyTcl : http://code.google.com/p/mytcl/
which is pretty comfortable to use, and base also on tclkit.

Regards, O.
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