Christopher Sean Morrison wrote to the mailto:tcl-mac@lists.sourceforge.net
mailing list on Sep 12, 2002:

Daniel,

Thanks for the tips.  Went and did a clean recompile and things worked out
just great.  We were using an 8.4.0 distribution archive version
downloaded from sf, and the directory name assumption appears to be what
was biting us.

For anyone else trying to get things to work, here is the exact process
that worked clean for us:

 [[downloaded tcl and tk 8.4.0 from sourceforge]
 tar zxvf tcl8.4.0-src.tar.gz
 tar zxvf tk8.4.0-src.tar.gz
 mv tcl8.4.0 tcl
 mv tk8.4.0 tk
 cd tcl/macosx
 make >& make.log
 sudo make install
 cd ../../tk/macosx
 make >& make.log
 sudo make install
 open /Applications/Utilities/Wish\ Shell.app

Now... to get our application to link against the new tcl/tk libraries and
see what happens..
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I tried these steps on a Titanium 400 PowerBook and was unsuccessful.
Tcl built, but making Tk failed.  It said it could not find tcl.h.  I copied this
file from Tcl into Tk, then it failed saying it could not find tclInt.h
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The directory names fixed one of the problems.  The build fails.  Installing
sort of works.  I will submit this to the mailing list in the near future.

Thanks,

Bruce

P.S.  Larry, my apologies for using the Wiki in this manner.

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[LV] Bruce, ask your question at the above mentioned mailing list for help.
But the behavior you mention above indicates that something strange is
going on with the compile not finding the tcl directory - almost as if
the step to rename tcl8.4.0 to tcl didn't occur.
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I asked Daniel A Steffen where online a MacOS X developer could find the
Developer Tools CD that is frequently mentioned as being needed to build
various packages.  Daniel replies:

> as Mark has already mentioned, if you have a store-bought copy of Mac
> OS X 10.x, it includes a Developer Tools CD.
> 
> on a new mac with Mac OS X preinstalled; AFAIK, there should be a
> diskimage on the harddrive somewhere containing the developer tools.
> 
> updates (including the April Developer Tools I mentioned eralier) can
> be obtained from http://connect.apple.com with a free Apple Developer
> Connection online membership (registration required...)
> 
> Once installed, you'll find the tools in /Developer/Applications

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See also [MacOS X].