Swisskit

Swisskit is an elaborate build of Tclkit Lite for Mac OS X. It was built with the new Kitgen configuration system.

Swisskit …

• … is based on the latest Tcl/Tk 8.5a6 sources from CVS
• … is a universal threaded build for any PowerPC or Intel 10.4-based Mac
• … can bring up an X11-based Tk if the “DISPLAY” environment var is set
• … will use the Tk Aqua shared library instead if “DISPLAY” is not set
• … includes all available encodings, message catalogs, and timezone files
• … has Tile and the Thread + Ttrace packages, as well as TclVFS and Vlerq

In other words: Swisskit can be the Swiss Army Knife for Tcl/Tk on the Mac.

News

• 2006-11-19 : first release, a 3.7 Mb download as ZIP archive

Acknowledgements

Swisskit is a tribute to Daniel Steffen, who has contiously improved the Tcl/Tk system for Macintosh, and who has made it possible to load either the Aqua or the X11 version of Tk from the same single-file standalone executable.