[[lots of explanation ... [Starkit] ...]]


[[hopefully something about how to structure the directories for general use as well as what code is needed within starkit to find the right extension as well as right applications, etc.]]

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I learned some by unwrapping the snack.kit from [sdarchive] and looking within the lib/snack directory.

[LV] here's what snack.kit does.  Inside the starkit, the directory layout is:

 snack.vfs
   lib/
        snack/
                Linux-x86
                        snack.so
                        sound.so
                SunOS-sparc
                        snack.so
                        sound.so
                Windows-x86
                        snack.dll
                        sound.dll
   main.tcl

 $ cat pkgIndex.tcl

 # return a platform designator, including both OS and machine
 proc platform {} {
    global tcl_platform
    set plat [lindex $tcl_platform(os) 0]
    set mach $tcl_platform(machine)
    switch -glob -- $mach {
        sun4* { set mach sparc }
        intel -
        i*86* { set mach x86 }
        "Power Macintosh" { set mach ppc }
    }
    return "$plat-$mach"
 }

 proc loadlib {dir package version} {
    global tcl_platform
    set lib $package[info sharedlibextension]
    return [file join $dir [platform] $lib]
 }

 package ifneeded snack 2.1 "[list load [loadlib $dir snack 2.1]];[list source [file join $dir snack.tcl]]"
 package ifneeded sound 2.1 [list load [loadlib $dir sound 2.1]]


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i believe that the starkit article [http://www.digital-smarties.com/Tcl2002/tclkit.pdf] by [stevel] has some suggestions about this topic.

One of the most common errors made by starkit authors is neglecting to specify
all the package require statements the code truly needs.  And the number
one omission is the statement for Tk.

The reason this becomes a problem is because the most commonly used tclkit
on Windows unfortunately does a
 package require Tk
as part of its operation.  Developers don't realize their code is missing
this critical statement, and then when the starkit is used on a non-Windows
platform, the code fails.

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See also [Starkits with Binary Extensions]


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[Category Deployment] | [Category Tclkit]