ulis, 2003-10-26. To answer a recurrent question, I retrieved an old page from c.l.t (dated 1997).
Mike Lynn <[email protected]> gracfully told us:
->Where can I find a version of TCL for DOS?
->I am writing an embedded system in MSC.
->Source or library binaries will do.
Tcl FAQ writes: C. INTEL DOS-like systems
DOS and Windows
Numerous ports to DOS are available.
LES on October 27, 2003: Most of these links do not seem to be valid anymore.
KJN on 2008-01-18: alleged ports of Tcl 6.2 and 6.7 are available from ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/x11/tk/old/ ; I have not tested them, but I have included them in a collection of Tcl 6 versions available here [L1 ].
- One unsupported port to MS-DOS of Tcl and Extended Tcl V6.0a, done by mailto:[email protected] (Karl Lehenbauer), is available on ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/dostcl.zoo for binaries and ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/dostcl60.zoo for source.
- A port of Tcl V6.2 to MS-DOS was done by mailto:[email protected] (John Martin) and is available via FTP from ftp://cajal.uoregon.edu/pub/tcl.dos.port/ and ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/tcl62.dos.tar.Z .
- A source code only port of Tcl V6.7 to MS-DOS, done by mailto:[email protected] (Peter Sprenger), is available from him, somewhere on wuarchive.wustl.edu or as ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/tcl67dos.zip .
- A port of Tcl, version 7.3, to MS-DOS, done by mailto:[email protected] (Tom Poindexter), is available as ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/distrib/mstcl73e.zip and ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/distrib/mstcl73s.zip . This also includes TclX 7.3a and Tk ported to Desqview/X libraries. README at [L2 ] The Desqview/X product, needed to run wish and wishx, is supposedly available at [L3 ] and a Slashdot article about Desqview/X at [L4 ] UPDATED LINKS TP
- A port of Tcl, V6.1 ?, done by unknown, to MS-DOS Windows V 3.1 ?, is available as binary at ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/w_tclbin.zip and as source at ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/w_tclsrc.zip .
- A package to take a Tcl source distribution and port it cleanly to MS-DOS, so that it can be compiled has been written by mailto:[email protected] (Bob Yennaco). It is available as ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/distrib/tcl2dos.sh.gz .
- An MS-DOS Windows DLL instance of Tcl 6.2 was generated by mailto:[email protected] (Ugo Cei). Contact him for more details.
- A Windows DLL was made by mailto:[email protected] (Ekkehard Beier) by slightly modifying a DOS 6.2 Tcl port. There are still problems with the system/WinExec command. A very rudimentary Debugger User Interface using Borland's Classlib is part of the zip-file, too. The source was used also with BC3.1++/AF on MS W3.1. You can get a copy from ftp://metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/pub/DOS/wintcl.zip via anonymous ftp. Unfortunately Ekki doesn't have time currently to finish the Windows port and user Interface.
- mailto:[email protected] (Toshihiko Haga) and mailto:[email protected] (Shigeaki Miyata) announced twin (tcl/tk for MS-Windows), which does not support exec and send, but supports a -bitmap for Windows .bmp files. A few other modifications or special exceptions are noted. This package's files can be found at
ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/twinesrc.zip / ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/twinebin.zip and ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/twinesrc.doc / ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/twinebin.doc
- mailto:[email protected] (Professor Ken K. Kubota) has announced a port of Tcl 7.3 and Tk3.6a to MS DOS Windows using Borland C++ 4.0. Fetch the README files from the ftp sites ftp://ftp.ms.uky.edu/pub/tk-win/{tkwinbin,tkwin,fedloc}.zip for more information.
- Omar Stanford mailto:[email protected] reported in March of 1994 that he had almost completed his port of Tcl 7.3 to MS-Windows 3.1. He had incorporated extensions for networking (including NetWare), Windows Sockets, and many Windows API functions. He also was working on a facility for dynamically allocating commands to the Tcl environment. If there are other extensions that one would like to see under Windows 3.1, or if you are interested in beta testing, drop him a line.
- Also, Simon Kenyon mailto:[email protected] of the Information Technology Centre, Dublin, IRELAND, mentions that they are starting to port Tk to MS-Windows. There is a mailing list (see "tcl-faq/part2") for folk who are interested.
- TinyTcl seems to run on pure DOS.
- If you do a checkout of the 'contrib' module, you will get the Tcl source plus a small build file for use with DJGPP which will build the Tcl mainline for DOS (yes, the HEAD) http://tcl.cvs.sourceforge.net/tcl/contrib/djgpp/ . A binary is in the SF files area for an old beta version of 8.4. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.4a4_dos.zip?download
QNX
- Steve Furr mailto:[email protected] reports getting Tcl ported to QNX without a lot of trouble. He mentions that QNX users who have the beta X hould have gotten a CD-ROM update with Tcl and Tk on the CD.
OS/2
- A port of Tcl 7.3, except for glob or command pipelines, to OS/2 2.x using C Set++ has been done by mailto:[email protected] (Bud Bach). As of this date, I have no leads on anyone porting Tk to any version of OS/2. There are some OS/2 X client support kits available for purchase, which might make it easier to port Tk.
Also (see "tcl-faq/part4"), the Tcl programs/packages catalog, for the latest port locations.
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