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Building Tcl/Tk 8.2.3 for SGI

This page contains my notes on building Tcl/Tk and the packages we commonly use for Tcl/Tk at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. I did this on an SGI Octane running 6.5 using the standard SGI compiler. Also included are some notes for where I built packages for use with TclPro.

2.1 Tcl/Tk

cd /usr/tcltk
gunzip < /mnt/inbox/tcl8.2.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd tcl8.2.3/unix/
./configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk/tcl823
make

lots of warning messages!

make install

cd /usr/tcltk
gunzip < /mnt/inbox/tk8.2.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd tk8.2.3/unix/
./configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk/tcl823
make 
make install

2.2 BLT

cd /usr/tcltk
gunzip < /mnt/inbox/BLT2.4n.tar.gz  | tar xvf -
cd blt2.4n/
patch -p5 < /mnt/inbox/BLT2.4n_patch
./configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk/tcl823 --enable-shared
make
make install
cp /mnt/inbox/BLT2.4_pkgIndex.tcl /usr/tcltk/tcl823/lib/blt2.4/pkgIndex.tcl

2.3 Tix

cd /usr/tcltk
gunzip < /mnt/inbox/Tix4.1.0.007.tar.gz | tar xvf -
ln -s tcl8.2.3 tcl8.2
ln -s tk8.2.3 tk8.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk/tcl823 --enable-shared
cd tk8.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk/tcl823 --enable-shared
cd ..
make
make install

Building BLT for tclpro

cd /usr/tcltk
cd blt2.4n/
cp /usr/tcltk/tcl823/lib/*.sh .

edit tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh change TCL_LIB_SPEC='-L/usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/irix-mips/lib -ltcl8.2${TCL_DBGX}' and TK_LIB_SPEC='-L/usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/irix-mips/lib -ltk8.2'

rm src/bltwish src/libBLT.a src/shared/libBLT24.so 
./configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/ --exec_prefix=/usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/ --enable-shared --with-cc=cc --with-tcl=.
make
make install
cp /mnt/inbox/BLT2.4_pkgIndex.tcl /usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/lib/blt2.4/pkgIndex.tcl
ln -s /usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/irix-mips/lib/libBLT24.so /usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/lib/libBLT24.so

Building Tix for tclpro

cd /usr/tcltk
gnutar xvzf /mnt/inbox/Tix4.1.0.007.tar.gz
cp blt2.4n/tclConfig.sh blt2.4n/tkConfig.sh  Tix4.1.0.007/unix/
cd Tix4.1.0.007/unix
cp /usr/tcltk/tcl823/lib/*.sh .

edit TCL_LIB_SPEC TK_LIB_SPEC, TCL_BUILD_LIB_SPEC, TK_BUILD_LIB_SPEC references to /usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/irix-mips/lib

./configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/ --enable-shared --with-cc=cc --with-tcl=/usr/tcltk/Tix4.1.0.007/ --with-tk=/usr/tcltk/Tix4.1.0.007/
cd tk8.0
rm tixwish libtix*
ln -s /usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/irix-mips/lib/libtk8.2.* .
ln -s /usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/irix-mips/lib/libtcl8.2.* .
./configure --prefix=/usr/tcltk/TclPro1.3/ --enable-shared --with-cc=cc --with-tcl=/usr/tcltk/Tix4.1.0.007/ --with-tk=/usr/tcltk/Tix4.1.0.007/
make
cd ..
make install

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