Version 9 of How Tcl accesses the Win32 API

Updated 2004-01-21 16:25:14

The Win32 implementations of Perl and Python more-or-less build in direct access to all of Microsoft's Win32 API(s).

[more detail - what kind of interface is this?]

Tcl does not, a crippling disadvantage in some contexts.

[What is the proposed solution here then?]

However, Tcl has its own approaches, including ffidl ...


The no-charge version of bcc55 [...] includes a no-charge version of a reference to the Win32 API [...].

PT The entire Win32 API documentation is available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/


The TWAPI project intends to remedy this by providing access to Win32 API's (NT based platforms, not Win98) not directly available from Tcl.