It is not clear, after reading Critcl pages, exactly what files have to be installed on a Windows machine to use Critcl. Does one have to install the critcl source code and then some other piece(s)?
June 2002 - Yes, you need critcl installed as a normal Tcl package (i.e. so "package require critcl" works in tclsh or tclkit) and you need to set things up so "gcc" works. What I do is install the mingw system, and set up the PATH so "gcc" works from the command line. That's it. -jcw
Paolo Noli: A little question: How to call a tcl commands from inside a c funcion declared with the statement "ccode"? (I need this to implement a callback procedure.. but I think this can be an interesting tip for others people. :)
Instructions for installing critcl in an existing "traditional" (i.e. non-starkit) Tcl installation
- Critcl is supplied as a Starkit; but perhaps you would like to use it with a traditional Tcl distribution, e.g to use your collection of extensions
- these instructions are console commands for a Linux/Unix system. Please adapt for other platforms.
- download the tclkit binary for your platform, and the starkits critcl.kit, and sdx.kit
- follow the instructions for installing tclkit (you can remove it at the end if you wish)
- check that tclkit and critcl.kit work correctly: run the command
tclkit critcl.kit test-critcl.tcl
- (where tclkit is in your command path and critcl.kit, test-critcl.tcl are in your current directory; the file test-critcl.tcl is listed below)
- you should see the console output "three times 123 is 369"
- now use sdx.kit to unpack critcl.kit: run the command
tclkit sdx.kit critcl.kit
- (where tclkit is in your command path and sdx.kit, critcl.kit are in your current directory)
- a directory critcl.vfs will be created that holds the contents of critcl.kit: cd to this folder's lib subfolder
cd critcl.vfs/lib
- ensure that you are the root user and that the folders and their contents have appropriate ownership
- copy the contents of this folder to the lib folder of your Tcl installation
cp -a * /path/to/tcl/lib
- now test this installation of Critcl:
tclsh test-critcl.tcl
- as before, you should see the console output "three times 123 is 369"
- if this is successful, you can now use Critcl from your existing Tcl installation, and you no longer need the tclkit or starkit files to use Critcl
The file test-critcl.tcl:
package require critcl
critcl::cproc triple {int i} int {
return i * 3; /* this is C code */
}
puts "three times 123 is [triple 123]"
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