Purpose: to discuss on what platforms the specific 8.6 version of Tcl runs, and point to pages that discuss particular issues relating to the various operating systems.
The On What Platforms Does Tcl Run page has become quite old, outdated and cluttered with a messy mix of assorted information that only applies to older versions of Tcl. Some of it is dubious/unverified. Many topics of this wiki are broken into many pages, one for each historical version of Tcl. That system provides for better focus and organization of the data in certain cases.
Tcl 8.6 runs on the following platforms:
- AIX, IBM.
- BSD Unix variations such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.
- HP-UX.
- Linux x86 and 64-bit.
- MacOS X, Apple.
- Solaris 8+ SPARC.
- Solaris x86.
- Windows 32-bit, Microsoft - 9.x, ME, NT, XP, Vista (all of them???)
- Note that 9x and ME are only (semi-)supported at all if you also have MSLU installed.
- Windows 64-bit, Microsoft - WinXP and Vista. (can anyone confirm???)
- Windows/CE/PocketPC, Microsoft. (can anyone confirm???)
Notes
Not all versions of Windows have been confirmed. Edit this line if you can confirm them.
- DKF: The TCT believes that the proportion of people who require ancient Windows is minimal, and feels that the complexity of interface required to deal with it is not justified. It is reported to work with MSLU, but we do not warrant that it will actually do things like passing the test suite or offering all features that a properly supported platform (like the current patchlevel of XP) does. I don't know whether older NT works. 32-bit XP (with all the current major patches installed; there is no reason to not to be patched up to date) and local NTFS filesystems is a main-line supported platform.
Not all versions of Linux have been confirmed. Edit this line if you can confirm them.
- DKF: All versions?! Even versions from 15 years ago? (Tcl should be fine on any version of Linux, but if you go really really ancient some thing might not work quite as well and making parts of the build work might be slightly tricky. But probably not; pre-ELF Linux is really rare nowadays.)
Tk 8.6 may not run on some of the above platforms. (Does that warrant a separate page for Tk?)
- DKF: Older versions of OSX are now on borrowed time, as per usual when dealing with Apple.
Most current Linux distributions come with Tcl and Tk as installable packages, and sources should compile just fine. Binaries can be found at places like ActiveTcl as well as the various distro repositories.
Most BSD Unix distributions come with Tcl and Tk as installable packages, and sources should compile just fine.
If you can confirm that Tcl/Tk 8.6 works on any platform not included in this page, please update the info.
Download sites
Any other good place for downloading Tcl/Tk 8.6?
See also