[Axiom-developer] Re: tkconnect

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

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> Camm,
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> re: your TK example.
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> tkconnect fails.
> it appears to be looking for gcltksrv which does not exist on my system.
> i presume this is because i failed to set a configure option.
> suggestions?
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GCL's configure should autodetect the presence of tk development files
at build time.  In other words, you need tk8.4-dev and dependencies
installed before configuring and building GCL, otherwise you get the
string "gcl-tk not made" in the build output.  

If you are on Debian and want a quick test, you should be able to
'apt-get install gcl', which will pull in tk automatically, and point
tkconnect to the gcltksrv therein.  tkconnect can take arguments
specifying the path to gcltksrv:

     tkconnect &key host display can-rsh gcltksrv

I prefer (reset-sys-paths....) as in my posted example, as this sets
the load-path and related variables as needed as well.

Take care,

> shelter seems to have done a very nice job on this effort.
> i like the way he structured the lisp/tk bindings.
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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