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  1. <Title>MkTclApp: A Tool For Mixing C/C++ with Tcl/Tk</Title>
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  3. <H1 Align=center>Mktclapp<br>A Tool For Mixing C/C++ with Tcl/Tk</H1>
  4. <p><center>Last Update: January 30, 2000 (Version 3.9)</center></p>
  5.  
  6. <p>Mktclapp is a utility that helps you
  7. mix C/C++ with Tcl/Tk to make a standalone executable.
  8. Using mktclapp, you can write programs where:</p>
  9.  
  10. <p>
  11. <ul>
  12. <li> C code can call Tcl procedures or execute Tcl commands,
  13. <li> Tcl code can invoke C functions,
  14. <li> The executable is a single binary file that will
  15.      run on machines without Tcl/Tk installed,
  16. <li> The same source code will compile without changes under both
  17.      Unix and Windows, and
  18. <li> The source code is hidden from the end user,
  19. </ul>
  20. </p>
  21.  
  22. <p>Mktclapp gives programmers the freedom to use
  23. C code for the things that C is good at (computation,
  24. complex data structures, etc.) while simultaneously using
  25. Tcl for the things that Tcl is good at (the user interface.)</p>
  26.  
  27.  
  28. <p>Mktclapp is a command-line program that can be run
  29. from a makefile.  But there is also a GUI "application wizard"
  30. that makes it easy to use.
  31. The mktclapp program itself and the GUI application
  32. wizard are each contained in a single source file.</p>
  33.  
  34. <p>The Mktclapp program and the application wizard are covered
  35. by the <a href="http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/copyleft/gpl.html">
  36. GNU Public License.</a>  But the output generated by mktclapp
  37. is in the public domain and can be used in any way you want.</p>
  38.  
  39. <p>The following items are available for download:
  40. <ul>
  41. <li> <a href="mktclapp.html">Documentation</a> and instructions for using
  42.      mktclapp.</li>
  43. <li> The <a href="history.html">release history</a> of mktclapp.</li>
  44. <li> A <a href="quickref.html">Quick Reference</a> highlighting everything
  45.      you need to remember to use mktclapp.</li>
  46. <li> A <a href="autoconf.html">note</a> on how to use autoconf with
  47.      mktclapp.</li>
  48. <li> C source code: <a href="mktclapp.c">mktclapp.c</a></li>
  49. <li> Tcl/Tk sources to the application wizard:
  50.      <a href="xmktclapp.tcl">xmktclapp.tcl</a></li>
  51. <li> <a href="screenshots.html">Screen-Shots</a> of the app wizard.</li>
  52. <li> This entire website, including all of the above (but not the
  53.      contributed software)
  54.      as a <a href="mktclapp.tar.gz">tarball</a>
  55.      or as a <a href="mktclapp.zip">zip archive</a>.</li>
  56. <li> <font color=red><b><i>New!</i></b></font>
  57.      <a href="contrib/index.html">Contributed</a> documentation and code.
  58.      </li>
  59. </ul>
  60. </p>
  61.  
  62. <p>Contact <a href="mailto:drh@acm.org">drh@acm.org</a> for comments,
  63. questions and/or bug reports.
  64. If you find mktclapp helpful, a quick e-mail to the author
  65. will be greatly appreciated.</p>
  66.  
  67. <p><hr></p>
  68.  
  69. <p>
  70. <ul>
  71. <p><li>
  72. <a href="http://www.albany.net/~dlabelle/freewrap/freewrap.html">Freewrap</a>
  73. generates a standalone exectuable from pure Tcl/Tk
  74. code, without the need for a C compiler.</li></p>
  75.  
  76. <p><li>
  77. <a href="http://www.swig.org/">SWIG</a> is a utility that creates
  78. a Tcl interface (or Perl or Python) to existing C code.</li></p>
  79.  
  80. <p><li>
  81. Some versions of Jan Nijtmans'
  82. <a href="http://members1.chello.nl/~j.nijtmans/plus.html">Plus Patches</a>
  83. for Tcl contain aids for making Tcl/Tk programs into standalone
  84. executables. More recently, Jan has made available the
  85. <a href="http://members1.chello.nl/~j.nijtmans/wrap.html">wrap</a> program
  86. which works like
  87. <a href="http://www.albany.net/~dlabelle/freewrap/freewrap.html">Freewrap</a>
  88. but achieves a smaller executable using some clever compression
  89. techniques.</li></p>
  90.  
  91. <p><li>
  92. The TclPro product from <a href="http://www.scriptics.com/">Scriptics</a>
  93. includes the ProWrap utility for converting Tcl/Tk scripts into
  94. standalone executables.</li></p>
  95.  
  96. <p><li>
  97. The <a href="http://icemcfd.com/tcl/ice.html">ICE</a> compiler from
  98. ICEM CFD Engineering converts Tcl scripts into C code which can then
  99. be compiled using a C compiler for faster execution.</li></p>
  100.  
  101. <p><li>
  102. <a href="http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl_compilers.html">
  103. Cameron Laird's personal notes on Tcl Compilers</a> contains comparisons
  104. and reviews of many Tcl compilation techniques.</li></p>
  105.  
  106. <p><li>Mktclapp is a replacement for <a href="../et">Embedded Tk</a> (ET).
  107. Mktclapp tries to achieve the same result as ET, but it uses a
  108. very different interface.
  109. Mktclapp was written to address deficiencies in the design
  110. of ET.</li></p>
  111. </ul>
  112. </p>
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