"Dqkit is like tclkit on steroids. It includes tcl, tk, metakit, vfs, zlib, tclx, itcl, itk, iwidgets, blt, tbcload, tclsqlite and openssl+tls", according to fan Bob Techentin. It also includes threading. Created by Wojciech Kocjan.
What: dqkit
Where: http://sf.net/projects/nstclhttpd
http://www.sf.net/projects/dqsoftware
Description: A single file executable which implements a
tcl interpreter and various extensions. Based on
tclkit concept, but includes more extensions,
at the cost of a larger runtime size.
Currently at version 0.0 .
Updated: 09/2004
Contact: See web sitesnichols I recently downloaded the dqkit and dqkitsh executibles for Windows from SourceForge. I am trying to use the Thread extension and another custom package that works with regular kit files. Where is dqkit looking for packages within a Thread pool? It can not find my packages when I do a package require. It works fine from my compiled Tcl Thread interp, but not dqkit. Is there something I need to do so it knows where to find my custom packages in my VFS kit file? Thanks in advance. S Nichols.
Q: are the sources for dqkit available? A: I see them. Look for dqkit-sources-* in the file list PAK
(on the sf.net web sites).
Q: was blt compiled with stubs for this kit? A: No. BLT is built in to the underlying wish PAK
JMN 2004-09-30 I tried building a minimal dqkit on Windows (with & without MinGW) and on FreeBSD but both failed with unenlightening error messages.
tclsh gen/buildkit build -tcl -tk -thread
e.g on windows NT:
[ 3/11] tcl
sh autoconf
child process exited abnormally
while executing
"exec >@file124b340 2>@file124b340 sh autocon
...
(file "gen/buildkit" line 1055)
On FreeBSD it got a little further... died at step 10/11 when trying to link.
Building software is always such a lottery... I don't hold much hope of the situation ever evolving much from the dogs-breakfast it it is today.
I guess Batteries Included tclkits are an acknowledgement of the sheer complexity of the task of ongoing provision of buildable sources across multiple platforms.. but for now, I usually have to build from source to use the packages I want on my chosen primary platforms of Windows & FreeBSD. The problem is that as in the case above, there are so many ways for things to go wrong and often very litle chance for a non-c programmer such as myself to diagnose & fix the errors.
Unfortunately binary packages for FreeBSD are rare; particularly if you're trying to create a multi-platform tclkit with package versions in sync. When you do find binaries, they may not have been built with the options you require - such as the unfortunate 2nd-class citizenship that threaded builds still seems to have in the Tcl world.
If anyone has some links to downloadable binaries of reasonably recent threaded tlkits for Windows & FreeBSD it'd be much appreciated. (even an un-threaded post tcl8.4.4 tclkit where Tk isn't broken on FreeBSD 5.x would be nice)
See also Batteries Included, functionality which dqkit provides.