Version 32 of SampleExtension

Updated 2016-01-26 11:29:02 by EMJ

Sampleextension is the "official" example of a Tcl extension. Write some C functions, and then follow the quick start guide below to add the required autogoo to get it to compile as an extension.

Note that the first link above is to the Fossil repository.

See Also

tclconfig
used by sampleextension
Extending Tcl
The main page for similar information
TEA
an alternative using CMake
Part of The Aries Engine (formerly the brick engine) repository

Attributes

nightly snapshots (not up to date)
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/nightly-cvs

Description

The Tcl sample extension implements an extension calculating the Core Secure Hash Algorithm (sha1). It demonstrates a TEA-conformant Tcl extension that includes a C library that can be dynamically loaded. It also illustrates the TEA directory structure and use of Tcl autoconf extensions to to provide configure and make facilities.

Quick start guide

# Replace quux with the name of your extension
EXTNAME=quux
wget -qO- http://core.tcl.tk/sampleextension/tarball/${EXTNAME}.tar.gz | tar xzv
cd ${EXTNAME}
wget -qO- http://core.tcl.tk/tclconfig/tarball/tclconfig.tar.gz | tar xzv
# Write your source files
# Edit configure.in
autoconf
# And then the usual:
./configure
make

The wget commands in the above fetch from the respective Fossil repositories, so they should be the latest stable version.