Well, as starters, when used in relationship to Tcl source code, the world ''compile'' tends to mean something along the lines of "run a program that reads in C source code and output an executable".

See also the following pointers to pages that related to compiling Tcl, or Tcl extensions.

   * [I cannot get Tcl (or an extension) to compile]
   * [optimized compilation of tcl]
   * [Generic compiling and linking via build tools]
   * [TEA2]
   * [cross-compiling]
   * [how to compile tcl and related c extensions on windows]
   * [how to compile a tcl script into an exe program]
   * [microsoft c compiler and tcl]
   * [compiling tcl on a mac]
   * [compile tcl with tcc]

   * [how to compile tcl and c extensions]
   * [building tcl/tk with mingw]
   * [building a custom tclsh]
   * [building stand-alone tcl/tk applications under mac os x]
   * [building an extension for tcl under mac os x]
   * [to build and test tcl]
   * [how to build for wince]
   * [building tcl and tk with cygwin]
   * [building tcl dll's for windows]
   * [building tcl unix cygwin with mingw]
   * [solutions for extension building]
   * [build tcl wtih profile based optimization]


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