Is TclKit dead?

Paul Walton

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Mar 15, 2023, 6:22:45 PM3/15/23

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I have 8.6 binaries for Darwin and Linux. I can't remember where I found them.

The supposed home for TclKit are here?
https://www.equi4.com/starkit/
https://code.google.com/archive/p/tclkit/

But the latest versions there are 8.5.2 and 8.5.9.

What's going on? No one uses TclKit anymore?

Peter Dean

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Mar 15, 2023, 6:41:52 PM3/15/23

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I found a tclkit thread from September '21 that may be helpful

I built a linux binary for 8.6.13 recently using kitgen from
https://github.com/patthoyts/kitgen

Christian Gollwitzer

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Mar 15, 2023, 7:00:55 PM3/15/23

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Am 15.03.23 um 23:22 schrieb Paul Walton:

Have a look here: https://github.com/auriocus/kbskit/releases/tag/v8.6.11
These tclkits are built on the Github Actions platform. I occasionally
update the build scripts for newer versions. If you are willing to build
on your own, you can also try BAWT or undroidwish.

Christian

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Mar 15, 2023, 7:20:59 PM3/15/23

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Perhaps the KitCreator by Roy Keene can help you (http://kitcreator.rkeene.org/fossil/index).
There is an online- interactive build system : http://kitcreator.rkeene.org/kitcreator.

Alejandro

Robert Heller

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Mar 15, 2023, 10:18:10 PM3/15/23

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At Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Paul Walton <walto...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have 8.6 binaries for Darwin and Linux. I can't remember where I found them.
>
> The supposed home for TclKit are here?
> https://www.equi4.com/starkit/
> https://code.google.com/archive/p/tclkit/

Equi4.com is "dead", but there are other sources of 'kits and other people
have taken over maintaining the TclKit eccosystem. For Linux and MaxOSX, it is
trivially easy to build your own up-to-date 'kits. I don't know about
building for MS-Windows -- it might be possible to cross-build.

>
> But the latest versions there are 8.5.2 and 8.5.9.
>
> What's going on? No one uses TclKit anymore?

TclKits are alive and well, just not at equi4.com.

>
>

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Harald Oehlmann

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Mar 16, 2023, 3:25:26 AM3/16/23

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For Windows, there are also the kits by Ashok on magicsplat sourceforge.
Harald

Alex P

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Mar 16, 2023, 3:52:47 AM3/16/23

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LUCK is very smart and flexible tool to make your own kits:
http://www.ch-werner.de/cgi-bin/luck.pl

These links might be useful too:
http://www.bawt.tcl3d.org/download.html#tclbi
https://github.com/auriocus/kbskit/releases
http://androwish.org/download/index.html

Paul Obermeier

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Mar 16, 2023, 5:13:02 PM3/16/23

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It's alive and kicking.

I have a version running with Tcl9.0b1 and Tk8.7.b1 currently under test.
Will be part of the next BAWT release.

Paul

Paul Walton

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Mar 17, 2023, 5:38:34 PM3/17/23

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Thanks all. This thread was very helpful. I'm glad to hear it's still alive.