Version 9 of MacTcl

MacTcl is the name the community has used over time for a version of Tcl that runs on MacOS operating systems.

The focus of this page is to provide pointers and brief tips on building Tcl/Tk (and extensions for it) on MacOS 7, 8, 9, and X.

For pointers on using Tcl on the Mac, including notes on installation of pre-built binaries, go to Apple Macintosh and Tcl/Tk instead.

For a quick overview of all Mac related pages on this wiki, try http://mini.net/tcl/mac

Key MacTcl resources on the web

Mac OS X, by Daniel Steffen: http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/darwin.html (8.3.1 w/ gcc)
Mac OS 8/9, by Danier Steffen: http://homepage.mac.com/tcltk/ (8.3.2p1 w/ CodeWarrior 6)
Mac OS 8/9, by Jim Ingham: on this wiki, Compiling Tcl on a Mac (8.3.1 w/ CodeWarrior 5)
Tcl-Mac mailing list archives: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=tcl-mac (SourceForge/GeoCrawler)
Source snapshots: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 (SourceForge)

Building MacTcl

(notes under construction, to be adjusted while I make progress -jcw)

James Bonfield describes in this tcl-mac post [L1 ] what CVS branch to use to get started when building Tcl/Tk using Apple's ProjectBuilder (a GUI which uses gcc and make under the hood)