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<TITLE>Building the Windows Binaries</TITLE>
<Center><H1>Building the Windows Binaries</H1></Center>
To build Tix on Windows, you must have the following:<p>
<ul>
<li> Visual C++ 4.0 or later; or Borland C++ 4.5 or later. There
is not yet built-in support for Tix to work with other compilers.
<li> The sources of Tcl/Tk for Windows.
<li> The sources of Tix for Windows.
</ul>
<h3> 1. Download the Tcl, Tk and Tix sources </h3>
You can download latest version of the Tcl7.5, 7.6 or 8.0 from <a
href="ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub"> ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub
</a>. There are detailed instructions that comes with these packages
about compiling them on Windows. Hopefully that will give you a good
exercise on setting up the environment for compiling Tcl-based
programs on the Windows platforms.<p>
You can then get the Tix source distribution at <a
href="ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/Tix41.zip">
ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/Tix41.zip </a>. This ZIP file contains files
with long file names and must be unzipped by an UNZIP program that
knows long filenames, such as <b>winzip.exe</b>. <p>
You should put the Tcl, Tk and Tix source packages in the same
directory. For example, my directories look like this: <p>
<blockquote><code><b>
C:\tcl7.6<br>
C:\tk4.2<br>
C:\Tix4.1<br>
</b></code></blockquote>
<h3> 2. Compile Tcl and Tk </h3>
Follow the instructions that come with Tcl and Tk. If you can
compile successfully, you would get the following files: <p>
<blockquote><b><code>
C:\tcl7.6\win\tcl76.dll<br>
C:\tcl7.6\win\tclpip76.dll<br>
C:\tk4.2\win\tk42.dll<br>
</code></b></blockquote>
These are the files you need to run Tix on Windows.
<h3> 3. Compile Tix </h3>
Change to the Tix4.1\Win subdirectory. Tix supports several versions
of Tcl. You choose the version of Tcl to compile Tix with by using
the <b>TCL_VER</b> variable:
<ul>
<li> Tcl 7.5: <b><code>nmake -f makefile.vc TCL_VER=7.5</code></b>
<li> Tcl 7.6: <b><code>nmake -f makefile.vc TCL_VER=7.6</code></b>
<li> Tcl 8.0: <b><code>nmake -f makefile.vc TCL_VER=8.0</code></b>
<li> Itcl 2.2: <b><code>nmake -f makefile.vc TCL_VER=2.2i</code></b>
</ul>
If you have BC++, use <b>make -f makefile.bc</b> instead. <p>
When <b>make</b> or <b>nmake</b> finishes, you will get Tix binaries
inside the build directories. For example, if you compile Tix for
Tcl 7.6, you will be the following files:
<blockquote><b><code>
C:\Tix4.1\win\tcl7.6\tix4176.dll<br>
C:\Tix4.1\win\tcl7.6\tix4176.exe<br>
</code></b></blockquote>
The executable file <b>tix4176.exe</b> contains Tcl, Tk and Tix. You
can use it to run an Tix script by:
<blockquote><b><code>
set TIX_LIBRARY=C:\Tix4.1\library
C:\Tix4.1\win\tcl7.6\tix4176.exe foo.tcl<br>
</code></b></blockquote>
<h3> 4. Fixing DLL problems</h3>
You may run into certain problems related to DLL's when you execute
<b>tix4176.exe</b>. For example:
<ul>
<li> Windows complains that a DLL, usually tcl76.dll, is not found.
<li> Windows complains that a symbol is missing.
<li> Some weird things happen.
</ul>
When <b>tix4176.exe</b> starts up, it will load in the following DLL's
<ul>
<li><code><b>tcl76.dll</b></code>
<li><code><b>tclpip76.dll</b></code>
<li><code><b>tk42.dll</b></code>
<li><code><b>tix4176.dll</b></code>
</ul>
Windows searches for a DLL file by the following order:
<ol>
<li>Same directory as executable.
<li>Windows system directory.
<li>directories in the PATH environment variable.
</ol>
To ensure that the correct DLLs are loaded, you can copy all the
DLL's used by tix4176.exe into the directory where tix4176.exe is. <p>
<h3> 5. Installing Tix</h3>
You can install Tix into the Tcl installation directory so that you
can load Tix with the "package require" command and no longer need
to set the TIX_LIBRARY variable: <p>
<ol>
<li> Create a directory <b>tix4.1</b> under the Tcl installation
directory, usually in <b>C:\Program Files\Tcl7.6\lib</b>. <p>
<li> Copy all the files under <b>Tix4.1b1\library</b> into the
<b>C:\Program Files\Tcl7.6\lib\tix4.1</b> directory. <p>
<li> Copy the file <b>Tix4.1\win\pkgIndex.tcl</b> into the
<b>C:\Program Files\Tcl7.6\lib\tix4.1</b> directory. <p>
</ol>
Now you should be able to start up wish42.exe and execute the
following command to load in Tix.
<blockquote><b><code>
package require -exact Tix [tixBinVer 4.1]
</code></b></blockquote>
Read the file <a href="Pkg.txt">Tix4.1\docs\Pkg.txt</a> for more
info about dynamically loading Tix.<p>
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<hr>
<h3> FAQ's for running Tix on Windows</h3>
<DL>
<DT> <b>How do I set an environment variable.</b><p>
<DD>
You can set it in your DOS window by typing something like
"<b>set TIX_LIBRARY=C:\Tix4.1\win</b>". This will affect that
particular DOS window only. If you want the change to affect
the whole Windows environment (for example, you want launch
<b>txwish41.exe</b> by double-clicking on its icon), you must
put the commands in your <b>AUTOEXEC.BAT</b> file and then
reboot your machine. <p>
<DT> <b>I get an "out of environment space" error from DOS.</b><p>
<DD>
Edit your <b>CONFIG.SYS</b> file and add the switch
"<b>/E:1024</b>" to the <b>SHELL=COMMAND.COM</b>
line. Reboot. This should give you enough env space.<p>
<DT> <b>My C compiler says "unrecognized file format tk42.lib" or
something like that.</b><p>
<DD>
You compiled <b>tk42.lib</b> with VC++ and are compiling Tix
with Borland C++, or vice verse. Use the same compiler to
compile all binaries.<p>
</DL>
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