Purpose: define the steps for one to take to create their first [starpack]. 1. Read [Steve Landers]' paper [http://www.digital-smarties.com/Tcl2002/tclkit.pdf]. 1. Download a [tclkit] for your platform. 1. Download [sdx] 1. Assemble a [starkit] [http://www.equi4.com/188] based on the examples in the paper 1. Use [sdx] to make a [starpack] from this starkit. You can even use your own application for the initial time through; "starkitting" is straightforward enough that people have been successful doing it for the first time even with applications which involve several auxiliary files, [extension]s (but only [stubs]ified ones?), and so on. ---- I'll break this down a slightly different way: 1. Install tclkit and sdx so they're available in your PATH. 2. Put sdx.kit in your working directory. 3. Create example.tcl: package require Tk pack [button .b -text "That's all for now" -command exit] 4. Wrap: tclkit sdx.kit qwrap example.tcl Now you have an example.kit Starkit (and, if you did this on a Windows host, an example.bat). That's the Starkit. 5. Create a standard unwrapping: tclkit sdx.kit unwrap example.kit 6. Make a copy of the tclkit executable for your target platform. Keep in mind that Starpacks look "native"; they are platform- specific. If you're working on Windows, and you're making a Starpack for Windows, just copy tclkit.exe into your local, working directory, at least for this demonstration. 7. Produce the starpack: sdx wrap example.exe -runtime tclkit.exe ---- [SD] The command line in step 7 did not work for me. What worked was: tclkit.exe sdx.kit wrap example.exe -runtime example.vfs/tclkit.exe ---- How should your application look so that it makes a good starpack? "[Starting effective starkit-based pure-Tcl development: the starkit::* namespace]" addresses that question. ---- [Category Tclkit]