Building Tcl/Tk 8.2, with BLT and Tix for LINUX

1. Files to Download

I downloaded the following:

2. Build and Install Tcl/Tk

Note that you should use the same value for --prefix on all of the ./configure commands in this section so that the packages are installed in the same locations. For LINUX systems, I typically use --prefix=/usr so that the Tcl/Tk files overwrite the ones installed with the LINUX distribution, but with an SGI or other computer, I don't like to modify system directories so I tend to use --prefix=/usr/local. If you don't have root access, you can install in some other location, for example, --prefix=/usr/people/toby/mytcltk.

In the examples below, I have downloaded the files in section 1. to ~/wp/inbox/ and I am building the source in /usr/tmp/tcltk823/ and will install the files in /mnt/opt/tcl823/

2.1 Tcl/Tk

mkdir /usr/tmp/tcltk823
cd /usr/tmp/tcltk823
gunzip < ~/wp/inbox/tcl8.2.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd tcl8.2.3/unix/
./configure --prefix=/mnt/opt/tcl823
make 
make install

cd /usr/tmp/tcltk823
gunzip < ~/wp/inbox/tk8.2.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd tk8.2.3/unix/
./configure --prefix=/mnt/opt/tcl823
make 
make install

2.2 BLT

Note that the package index file created by BLT never seems to work correctly (it does not reference the routines in the bltGraph.tcl file). I overwrite the file in the last installation file. 
cd /usr/tmp/tcltk823
gunzip < ~/wp/inbox/BLT2.4n.tar.gz  | tar xvf -
cd blt2.4n/
patch -p5 < ~/wp/inbox/BLT2.4n_patch
./configure --prefix=/mnt/opt/tcl823 --enable-shared
make
make install
cp ~/wp/inbox/BLT2.4_pkgIndex.tcl /mnt/opt/tcl823/lib/blt2.4/pkgIndex.tcl

2.3 Tix

cd /usr/tmp/tcltk823
gunzip < ~/wp/inbox/Tix4.1.0.007.tar.gz | tar xvf -
ln -s tcl8.2.3 tcl8.2
ln -s tk8.2.3 tk8.2
cd Tix4.1.0.007
patch -p4 < ~/wp/inbox/Tix4.1.0.007_tcltk82_patch
cd unix
./configure --prefix=/mnt/opt/tcl823 --enable-shared
cd tk8.0
./configure --prefix=/mnt/opt/tcl823 --enable-shared
cd ..
make
make install
cd ../..

2.4 Tcl-DP

cd /usr/tmp/tcltk823/
gunzip < ~/wp/inbox/dp40b2-src.tar.gz | tar xvf -
mv tcl-dp dp40b2
cd dp40b2
patch -p4 < ~/wp/inbox/dp40_tcl82patches  
cd unix
./configure --prefix=/mnt/opt/tcl823 --with-tcl=../../tcl8.2.3/unix
make
mkdir /mnt/opt/tcl823/lib/dp40
cp libdp40.so ../library/*.tcl /mnt/opt/tcl823/lib/dp40
cd /mnt/opt/tcl823/lib/dp40
echo pkg_mkIndex . ./libdp40.so | ../../bin/tclsh8.2
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Brian Toby ([email protected])
1/2000