Tclkit Lite is a new (as of Oct 2005) variant of [Tclkit] which is a limited edition of Tclkit. The limits and differences are: * it only reads/runs/mounts [Metakit]-based [starkit]s & [starpack]s, it cannot (yet) create or modify them * it does not include [Mk4tcl], so all dependencies on [C++] are gone * it adds a small [TEA]3-based new C-only extension (called "Thrive") * performance is "sort of" like Tclkit, but varies because it's a different code base * it does not use the "mk4vfs" [VFS] driver, but a simpler one called "mkclvfs" (MK Compat Lite) * Tclkit Lite is smaller than Tclkit (some 250 Kb less on Linux, no more Mk4tcl nor C++ runtime) The steps needed to build Tclkit Lite require the latest version of "[genkit]", see [http://www.equi4.com/tclkitlite.html]. -[jcw] ---- [PT] 31-Oct-2005: I've modified the msvc6 build files to include support for this. I'm uncertain that I've got it 100% correct so far as my tclkitlite is only 90K or so smaller that the normal tclkit. My tclkitlite84.exe for Windows is available from [http://www.patthoyts.tk/programming/tclkitlite84.upx.exe] (gpg signature at [http://www.patthoyts.tk/programming/tclkitlite84.upx.exe.asc]) at least for a while. I'll produce some patches at some point. ''[jcw] - Thanks, Pat. The size diff might be due to the fact that on Win32, the C++ runtime code is tied in dynamically (perhaps also because MSVC6 is quite good at compiling C++). Note also that you're comparing a UPX-compressed exe.'' [PT] These are the sizes I have for each version - ''not'' upx compressed. The link above is compressed because it is for download and my uplink speed is not that fast. 31/10/2005 16:34 2,001,305 tclkit84.exe 31/10/2005 16:28 1,908,269 tclkitlite84.exe 31/10/2005 16:41 1,038,745 tclkitsh84.exe ---- [[[Category Tclkit]]]