Re: Tcl / Tk on Windows

On 2024-12-15, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> wrote:

 
On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, greg wrote:
 

Gregor
(but Windows != Unix)

 
Yes, that is really my biggest problem.
 
There is no other way than to confront a Windows machine and test.
 
I only need tcl, tk and sqlite3 library, and the program does only
some calculations on a DB. Perhaps in this very special case cygwin could
be usable by a windows user, but I will try with something more native.

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Given those requirements, you'd be best off with one of the "single
file executable packages" (i.e., starkit/freewrap/undroidwish/etc.).
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You do the "small extra work" of wrapping all the Tcl/Tk code into the
"package".
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For your windows user(s) they just see a single executable they can
double click upon to launch.

The OP can have a look at https://github.com/RobertPHeller/RolePlayingDB3 for
an example of a pure Tcl/Tk app that can be cross-built for ANY platform on
ANY linux system. He might need to dig up the package library for sqlite3 (eg
the pkgIndex.tcl+libtclsqlite3.dll for MS-Windows), which should be online
somewhere.

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