by [Dennis LaBelle]

homepage at http://freewrap.sourceforge.net/
The freewrap program turns TCL/TK scripts into single-file binary executable programs.

There are various forms of this application - from wrapping [pure-tcl] scripts to wrapping [tk] and I believe even tk + certain [extension]s.
The pure Tcl version--freewrapTCLSH--generates an executable that's
typically just over a quarter of a megabyte.
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Alex [[Vizantinos?]] provides a recipe 
[http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freewrap+decrypt+group:comp.lang.tcl*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3957b880.0305181722.4fb7216d%40posting.google.com]
for reverse engineering a Freewrap-ped application.
Dennis follows that up with a simple counter-recipe for
use of a private encryption key.
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Latest version (5.6) gives up source code encryption [http://freewrap.sourceforge.net/freewrap_history.html].

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[MG] notes on May 12th, 2005 that a '''v6.0''' seems to be available, since the start of the year, according to the download's page. It uses Tcl 8.4.8.
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See also [tbcload] and [Freedelivery]




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In a world with [Starpack]s, [mktclapp], and so on, what's the point of freeWrap?
One benefit is that freeWrap builds in [BLT].

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[Category Application]