Version 10 of On What Platforms Does Tcl Run

Updated 2001-10-26 10:29:15

Purpose: to discuss on what platforms Tcl runs, and point to pages that discuss particular issues relating to the various operating systems.

  • A/UX
  • AIX
  • Agenda PDA
  • AmigaDOS (for older versions of Tcl)
  • BeOS
  • Dynix
  • EPOC ER5
  • FreeBSD
  • HP-UX
  • Irix
  • Linux - Most current Linux distributions come with Tcl and Tk as installable packages, and it should compile just fine. Binaries can be found at places like ActiveTcl
  • LynxOS
  • MS Windows 3.x (for older versions of Tcl)
  • MacOS 7.x, 8.x, 9.x
  • MacOS X
  • MachTen
  • NetBSD
  • NEWS-OS
  • NeXTSTeP
  • OpenBSD
  • OS-9
  • OS/2
  • OS/390
  • OSF/1
  • PalmOS Palm Pilot
  • Qnx
  • RISCOS
  • Solaris - Tcl and Tk builds fine on both Intel and SPARC Solaris (if you have a compiler like gcc or Sun's unbundled C compiler), and otherwise the binaries can be found at places like ActiveTcl or the Solaris freeware web site.
  • System V.4
  • UMAX V
  • Ultrix
  • Unicos
  • VMS
  • VxWorks
  • Windows/CE
  • Xenix
  • Apple Macintosh and Tcl/Tk and binaries can be found on http://sf.net/projects/tcl and other places
  • Microsoft Windows and Tcl and binaries can be found in ActiveTcl as well as other places
  • OpenNT
  • various BSD variations