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Loading DLL's

rgm — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:54:03 -0800

Forgot to mention that when I moved the DLL's to ./lib my load command does reflect this change to :
load [file join [file dirname [info nameofexecutable]] lib/mydll.dll] pkg

And I also include the dll's in the files to be wrapped

Loading DLL's

rgm — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:39:32 -0800

Jeff,
Thanks. That seems to work. In fact I am using the following:

load [file join [file dirname [info nameofexecutable]] mydll.dll] pkg

The above works fine as long as "mydll.dll" and the tcl script are in the same directory. When I moved the DLL's to ./lib, I get an error at runtime saying "cannot find mydll.dll...". BUT, when I added ./lib to path in windows, everyhting works again !

Should I be doing anyhting in the script to define path?

I tried lappend auto_path [file join [file dirname [info nameofexecutable]] lib] but it didnt seem to fix the problem.

Thanks.
Raghu

TDK- Loading DLL's

jeffh — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:52:28 -0800

Ah, you should not literally use [load mydll.dll Pkg] in your script. The location will be relative to something. If it is relative to your main script when you wrap, you would do:

load [file dirname [info script]]/mydll.dll Pkg

TDK- Loading DLL's

rgm — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:50:58 -0800

The DLL's I am using were indeed created using MSVC 6. I link to tclstub84.lib. Also, the dll's only depend on the std. Windows system dll's.

In the tcl script as shown above should I be using absoulte paths? I am not sure how the load path is defined.

I am puzzled why the executable is able to find the DLL's on my machine where I build, but not on another !

Thanks.
Raghu

TDK - Loading DLL's

jeffh — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:37:50 -0800

As with any extension, make sure that your dlls do not have any external dependencies and link against the static Tcl stub library. You can check this on a machine with MSVC installed by using the Dependency Walker. The dlls should only depend on standard Windows system dlls.

TDK - Loading DLL's

rgm — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:37:33 -0800

Jeff,
I got the wrapping to work with dqkit. Thanks !

I wrapped my script minus the DLL's (the DLL's do some math). The wrapped simple app works fine.

Now when I try to load a few DLL's - (these load the BLT vectors. they also call other DLL's to do solve equations..), the wrapped app works fine on the box where it was wrapped ! However when I run it on my laptop, it gives me an error syaing it couldnt find my dll. I even tyried to wrap the DLL's, but still get the same error. Is there a special way to load the DLL's in my tcl script.

I load the DLL's in the following manner:

load my_dll01 SolvePDE
load my_dll02 LoadVec
load my_dll03 ResetVec

Appreciate your help.

Thanks.
Raghu

TDK - BLT?

jeffh — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:10:38 -0800

The basekits used in TclApp can be either the ones shipped with ActiveTcl or another tclkit, such as dqkit (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=99106&package_id=1...) that includes the BLT extension statically linked in.

An extension need only be compiled with stubs enabled to be used when wrapped, but this isn't a default configuration for BLT. There are patches on the NET to allow this if you chose to go that direction.

Jeff

TDK - BLT?

rgm — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:47:45 -0800

Ok, Thanks.

ALso I am using BLT for plotting. Any way I can wrap using TDK when using BLT?
Is there a stubs enabled version I can download?

Thanks.
RGM

Tcl Dev Kit 4.0.1 - Trouble wrapping app with tcom

jeffh — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:31:39 -0800

First off, I recommend upgrading to 4.0.4 if you do any work with 8.5. Otherwise, I suspect you just have a path problem. In TclApp, open Edit -> Preferences.

Under TAP Search paths, make sure you have C:/Tcl/lib and C:/Tcl/lib/tcl8.4 (assuming a standard ActiveTcl 8.4 install). If you happened to install ActiveTcl after TDK, then TDK is not able to seed these paths appropriately.

Tcl Dev Kit 4.0.1 - Trouble wrapping app with tcom

rgm — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:42:59 -0800

I am using TclApp 4 to wrap an application that uses tcom.

Following is the error:

| Tcl Dev Kit TclApp
| Copyright (C) 2001-2008 ActiveState Software Inc. All rights reserved.
| Standard license for Raghunath Menon .
|
| Embedding license information into wrap result as comments.
|
Command line:
C:/TclDevKit/bin/tclapp.exe -icon 'C:\Apps\PST\SFE_Rel_v1\sh71.ico' -compile -compilefor 8.4 -prefix C:/Tcl/bin/base-tk-thread-win32-ix86.exe -verbose -out C:/Apps/PST/SFE_Rel_v1/sfe -noprovided -architecture win32-ix86 -pkgref Iwidgets -pkgref 'Tk 8.0' -pkgref dde -pkgref tcom -relativeto C:/Apps/PST C:/Apps/PST/SFE_Rel_v1/combobox.tcl C:/Apps/PST/SFE_Rel_v1/davinci3.gif C:/Apps/PST/SFE_Rel_v1/davinci4.gif C:/Apps/PST/SFE_Rel_v1/SFE_v1_rel.tcl C:/Apps/PST/SFE_Rel_v1/sh71.ico
Wrapping ...
Expanding...
Following only profile dependencies
Accepting missing dependencies
Accepting version changes made by fuzzy search

P package Tk 8.4 win32-ix86 ...
P package dde 1.2.4 win32-ix86 ...

Issues...
package 'tcom -is package' is not known (Specified, Not recoverable)

Aborting

Done

| Embedded license information into wrap result as comments.
| Standard license for Raghunath Menon .

Not sure why. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Raghu

TDK 3.2 on Ubuntu 7.10

jeffh — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:36:17 -0800

The upx decompression fix noted about for 4.0.1 should work for 3.2 as well. Otherwise we have already published 4.0.3 with this issue fixed for all users.

Can't Install TclDevKit 3.2 on Ubuntu 7.10 for same reason

Art — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:03:15 -0800

I am unable to re-install TclDevKit 3.2 on Ubuntu 7.10 operating system.

When I enter "sh install.sh", the command exits and no GUI pops up.

It turns out that install.sh uses tdkbase.

When I try to invoke tdkbase directly, it just exists.

Update Released

grahams — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:38:53 -0700

Updated ActiveTcl and TDK releases to fix problems on Ubuntu 7.10GG have been issued.

ActiveTcl8.4.16.1
ActiveTcl8.5.0.0b10
TDK4.0.3

This release is Linux only. All other OS releases remain at the previous version number.

More on upx basekit with Ubuntu 7.10

jeffh — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:41:53 -0700

We have confirmed that the older version of upx that we were using for basekit compression was causing the problem. We are working on fully updated builds that use the latest upx which has been verified to run on 7.10GG.

More on upx basekit with Ubuntu 7.10

jeffh — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:31:22 -0700

We are updating our upx version which had change notes about improving some SELinux-related issues. Hopefully that addresses the core problem.

Tcl Dev kit not working on Ubuntu 7.10

JoeM — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:21:23 -0700

The Tcl base kits included with ActiveTcl 4.0 are not running on the lastest Ubuntu 7.10 release.

Normally if you just execute the base kit base-tcl-linux-ix86, the Tcl interpeter will start up.

However, after upgading to Ubuntu 7.10, the program just exits imediately. Any programs built using tclapp exhibit the same behavior.

# uname -a
Linux Ubuntu-POD1 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux